Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
– Yoda
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
– Yoda
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.
As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness.
No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
– John Donne (1572-1631)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential
is invisible to the eye.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
Water Under Water – The Thrill
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
– H. G. Wells
“No human thing is of serious importance.”
– Plato
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
– Charles McCabe
“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
– Dave Barry