The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn’t matter.
-Louis Kronenberger
Tag: wondrous days
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #18
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #19
Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all the services which can be done to [men and women], I know of none more precious.
-William Hale White
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #20
If you love me, tell me so. The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
-Helen Hunt Jackson
“…wondrous days, surprising days” #21
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