Experienced time occurs when we are able to stop worrying about the past and the future long enough to live for a moment in the present, to feel and think and savor. It is this kind of time we feel lacking in our lives.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #82
Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.
-St. Francis de Sales
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #83
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-Booker T. Washington
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #84
If you can’t fight and you can’t flee, flow.
-Robert Eliot
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #85
What people mean by stress is simply the condition of being human, and I will not recommend and meddling with that by medicine or any other profession.
-Lewis Thomas, M. D.
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #86
So long as there’s a bit of a laugh going, things are alright. As soon as this infernal seriousness, like a greasy sea, heaves up, everything is lost.
-D. H. Lawrence
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #87
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
-Benjamin Disraeli
“…wonderous days, surprising days” #88
The greatest act of love is to pay attention.
-Michael J. Arlen
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #89
“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!”
“You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
-Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #90
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and… thanks to this artifice, we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera