Unguarded Moments

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. - Buddha

 

The Healing Dark

Sleep away the sadness of today.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. - Garson Kanin

Musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. -Mencius, Chinese philosopher, 4th cent. BCE

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. - Robert W. Service

Often the act of waiting is anything but simple. Many people hate to wait because they are waiting to do something, get something, or go somewhere.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. - Junichiro Tanizaki

It Takes Two

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain

 

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -  Buddy Hackett

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. -  Coco Chanel

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. - Confucius

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. -  J. P. Morgan

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.  -  Aristotle

 

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -  Indira Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time for a little bit of everything

Time progresses in an infinite pattern of simple events. Life is about taking some of that Time to escape banality with simple pleasures.

 

 

“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.” 
- Jules Renard

 

 

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
- Paul Theroux 



 

 

 

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
- Miguel de Cervantes 

 

 

“Ice cream is happiness condensed.” 

-Jessie Lane Adams

 

 

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
- Thomas Hobbes 

 

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
-J. B. Priestley 
 

 

 

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust