Time to Move On

Dear Readers,

It's been a good run.

I have decided to move on to other pursuits and interests.

This online journal has been a stimulating hobby for me over the last few years and I have appreciated your readership very much.

Best wishes to all who may have gleaned some enrichment from this site.

Paul

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
~ T. S. Eliot

Success and Value

To burn always with a hard, gem like flame, that's success in life. ~ Robert W. Marks
 
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ~ Charles Luckman
 
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become one of value. ~Albert Einstein

Treasures of the Morning

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
 
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. ~ Francis Bacon
 
I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in morning. ~ Terri Guillemets

Expect Nothing

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.  ~Ambrose Bierce

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.  ~Jonathan Swift

The best things in life are not things.  ~ Art Buchwald

#238 Lucid Intervals

Lucid intervals and happy pauses. ~Francis Bacon

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~ Ovid

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ~ John Locke

#237 Take Time

Take time to work, it is the price of success.
Take time to think, it is the source of power.
Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to read, it is the foundation of wisdom.
Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.
Take time to dream, it is hitching your wagon to a star.
Take time to love & be loved, it is the privilege of the gods.
Take time to look around, it is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul. ~ Old English Prayer

#236 Anticipation: Radiance or Calamity?

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. ~ G. K. Chesterton

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. ~ Oliver Goldsmith