[lit-ideas] Re: Quotes of the Day
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:26:56 -0500
I'm sure Andy knows that I have changed my name to Marlena in hopes of
running with Hillary. I not sure though if his email was addressed to
Marlena Boggs or to Marlena Tarpits -- moi. As a candidate, I can't take
the chance of missing an opportunity to speak publicly, therefore I will
respond -- not by critiquing the work of others -- heavens, what enemies
that would make -- but by presenting other aphorisms and acute directives
for your edification:
2. Of all the ways to avoid living perfect discipline is the most admired.
4. Say nothing as if it were news.
6. Despair says "I cannot lift that weight." Happiness says, "I do not
need to."
8. Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.
9. Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.
11. Patience is not very different from courage, It just takes longer.
13. I could explain, but then you would understand my explanation, not what
I said.
15. Easy to criticize yourself, harder to agree with the criticism.
19. How much less difficult life is when you do not want anything from
people, and yet you owe it to them to want something.
22. Laziness is the sin most willingly confessed to, since it implies
talents greater than have yet appeared.
23. If you reason far enough you will come to unreasonable conclusions.
25. What you fear to believe, your children will believe.
27. The road not taken is the part of you not taking the road.
30. The wounds you do not want to heal are you.
32. If I didn't have so much work to keep me from it, how would I know what
I wanted to do?
39. Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is
preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
40. They gave me most who took most gladly of my love.
41. Back then I wanted to be right about my estimate of my abilities. Now I
want to be wrong.
43. Self-love, strange name. Since it feels neither like loving someone,
nor like being loved.
45. To feel an end is to discover that there had been a beginning. A
parenthesis closes that we hadn't realized was open).
from VECTORS: FORTY-FIVE APHORISMS AND TEN-SECOND ESSAYS by James
Richardson
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Marlena Tarpits
Memphis
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From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:56 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Quotes of the Day
>I wonder if Marlena can critique these two quotes of the day for us. I'm
>asking Marlena because these quotes appear to fit right in with her
>interest in making the world a better place. The first quote says focus on
>yourself and you'll be happy; the second quote says focus on others and
>you'll be happy. It seems to me that the first quote is the shorter and
>less bumpy road to happiness. Marlena, any ideas?
> "Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care
> about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then
> step back. The only path to serenity."
> - Lao-tzu
>
> "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
> affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
> endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the
> best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy
> child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one
> life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
> succeeded."
> - Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
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