Moderation

"Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."

Robert Fulghum, author (b. 1937)

The other self

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)

S Korea elects first woman president ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

S Korea elects first woman president ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

Sowing and Harvesting

"My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain."

Sara Teasdale, American poet (1884-1933)

Eye to I

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

Take a good book at this

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

Maurice Herzog just died

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He paid for the glory [of climbing the Annapurna] in the form of several fingers and toes that had to be amputated because of frostbite.

"You can see what I have less of, but I feel what I have more of and it is incomparably greater," he later observed.

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Ten Commandments go digital - Research - University of Cambridge

Ten Commandments go digital - Research - University of Cambridge

Dwritving

"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way."

E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)