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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners--and I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." -- Wislawa Szymborska
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one! -- C.S. Lewis
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. -- John MacDonald in The Turquoise Lament, 1973
You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. -- Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990) Psychiatrist |
