Today’s One-Liner (#27)
Old age ain’t for sissies. –Ida, via George, personal acquaintance
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Today’s One-Liner (#26)
Dogmatism buckles under pressure from reality. –Nellie Bowles, “The Failure of San Francisco,” in Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
Don’t Wait till Later
The Stoics would always say, one must think death is imminent, but it was less to prepare for death than it was to discover the seriousness of life. Marcus Aurelius, for example, as a Stoic,…
Today’s One-Liner (#25)
It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. –Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook,” in Slouching towards Bethlehem Sao Paulo,…
Today’s One-Liner (#24)
“You have to write your own history, nobody’s going to do it for you.” –Allen Ginsberg, quoted in Anne Waldman, Beats at Naropa
Today’s One-Liner (#23)
Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles happen. –Wislawa Szymborska, “Miracle Fair”
That Divine Spark
A few weeks ago, I was having lunch at the Vine with Natalie, when I learned more about her keen interest in Thérèse of Lisieux, such that I asked her to consider doing a Share…
Today’s One-Liner (#22)
Let nothing upset you; let nothing frighten you. –Saint Teresa of Avila
One to One
Emerson never wrote for groups or classes or institutions; his intended audience was always the single hearer or reader. –Robert Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, xii
Today’s One-Liner (#21)
Continue your efforts steadily without flagging. –Sri Anandamayi Ma, in Joseph Fitzgerald, The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Indian Saint, 91