Sunday, 14 June
Two thoughts from Andrew Marvell
“Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns.”
“Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
Monday, 15 June
Two thoughts from James Cameron
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.”
Tuesday, 16 June
Two thoughts from Oscar Levant
“Happiness isn’t something you experience, it’s something you remember.”
“It’d be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.”
Wednesday, 17 June
Two thoughts from Christopher Hitchens
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
Thursday, 18 June
Two thoughts from Joan Didion
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“We are the stories we tell ourselves.”
Friday, 19 June
Two thoughts from Charles Bukowski
“The free soul is rare—but you know it when you see it—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
Saturday, 20 June
Two thoughts from Marcel Proust
“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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