Everybody knows how to weep, but it takes a fine texture of mind to know… how to enjoy the bright and happy things in life.
-Oliver Bell Bunce
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #22
There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
-Ken Blanchard
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #23
What a strong narrowing of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
-Samuel Johnson
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #24
It is the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give.
-Agnes Repplier
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #25
Celebration is forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go.
-Matthew Fox
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #26
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things only hoped for.
-Epicurus
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #27
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
-John Fowles
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #28
Much of what I know of tenderness come from planting trees with my father.
-William Bryant Logan
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #29
The cure for anything is salt water-sweat, tears, or the sea.
-Isak Dineson
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #30
Perfectionism is a slow death. If everything were to turn out just like I would want it to, I would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake, I experience something unexpected.
-Hugh Rather