Two Thoughts (23 - 29 June)
Sunday, 23 June
Two thoughts from Tom Robbins
“When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.”
“Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
Monday, 24 June
Two thoughts from Jasper Fforde
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.”
“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.”
Tuesday, 25 June
Two thoughts from Robert Rankin
"Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known.”
"What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more."
Wednesday, 26 June
Two thoughts from Tom Holt
"At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance."
"In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy."
Thursday, 27 June
Two thoughts from Louise Hay
"Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad."
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
Friday, 28 June
Two thoughts from Walter Pater
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Saturday, 29 June
Two thoughts from Arthur Symons
"But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves."
“It is in their eyes that their magic resides.”
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dear jim,
thanks as always for these gems!
some of my favorites today...
Louise Hay:
"Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad."
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."
Tom Robbins:
“Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
Jasper Fforde:
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.”
“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.”
much love
myq