Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Seneca the Younger, Roman statesman, philosopher
Tag: wisdom
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
Russian proverb
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.
– FDR’s State of the Union address, January 6, 1941
From the book Crash -The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
– John Stuart Mill, philosopher
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
-Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, poet
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius–and lots of courage–to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein
My New Office if Only Warm Weather Would Last
This is my favorite spot to read, write or just relax. The lovely silver maple provides a perfet canopy, the warm sunshine and gently cool breeze today, lull away my stress.
Inspiration comes best to me in natural settingsl like this. The trees seem to share the widom of their years with me.
If only late summer/early fall weather could continue into winter . . .but I guess we must have balance. The next best thing would be a small writer’s cabin here. But then again, it might alter the mystical atmosphere.
Here’s another shot of the site. There’s something about this huge silver maple, with frail small branches, yet a thick, sturdy trunk, that renews my strenghth . . .
Weekly Wisdom – The Penny Mason Post
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu – philosopher
