July 2010
24 posts
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.”
– Konrad Lorenz
“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a...”
– Ortega y Gasset, “On Love”
“My mind to me an empire is, While grace affordeth health.”
– Robert Southwell
“To be wise is not to know particular facts but to know without excessive...”
– John Meacham, “The Loss of Wisdom”
“Every person’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.”
– Hans Christian Anderson
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river,...”
– Heraclitus
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our...”
– Eric Hoffer
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his...”
– Jacob Riis
Lant Pritchett and the hot Indian shower →
This parable for me illustrates a learning point about the value of questioning how we frame our goals, both individually and in negotiation.
“Empathy is the only human superpower—it can shrink distance, cut through social...”
– Elizabeth Thomas
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance... →
J. K. Rowling’s 2008 commencement address at Harvard.
June 2010
24 posts
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Cicero
“A kite rises against the wind”
– [unknown]
“A person who knows only his side of an issue knows neither side.”
– Cicero
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they...”
– Ellen Goodman
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have...”
– James A. Baldwin
“La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de...”
– Anatole France, “Le Lys Rouge” [“The Red Lily”] (1894)
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
– Philo
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever...”
– Helen Keller
“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, to the horror of parents everywhere
“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
Forgiveness
There are two senses of forgiveness. By one metric, every offence must be forgivable; by the other, none are.
To some people, forgiveness means the erasing of an event, so that it has no imprint on the present, or effect on a relationship.
By this metric, no offence is forgivable. Events cannot be erased, and everything we do has consequences. Actions cannot be taken back; we can only pretend...
May 2010
12 posts
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life...”
– Tecumseh
