“The dark memories do not recede; you live with them and they become a part of you.”
Winters, Major Dick. Beyond Band of Brothers (p. 3). Ebury Publishing.
Warren Buffet on Superstition
“I’m not big on superstition — that can be expensive.”
~ Warren Buffet
Prenta Ljucovic on Work
“You never think of problems when you work. If I had my nephews here, I would put them to work. They wouldn’t get in trouble. Work is the best medicine for everything.”
~ Prenta Ljucovic
Paula Pant on Being Yourself
“You are who you are. Find ways to work with your nature rather than constantly battling against it.”
~ Paula Pant
Ellis on Retribution
“Ellis:
Well all the time you spend trying to get back what’s been took from you, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.”
~ Ellis / No Country For Old Men
Musonius Rufus on Work
“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.”
~ Musonius Rufus.
Don Malarkey on the Errors of youth
” … but when you’re young, sometimes you do stupid things.”
~ Don Malarkey
Jan Morris on the Soul
“I believe in the soul and the spirit more than the body.”
~Jan Morris
Jan Morris on Art
“It is Art, which is infinite in itself, which can be creative or comforting, active or passive, which comes from nowhere, which goes everywhere, which is omniscient, which is laughter and pity and puzzle and beauty, which is equally available to all of us, practitioners or recipients, and which can satisfy all our senses while the going is good.”
~ Jan Morris
Ranulph Fiennes on Ageing
“You realise that if you’d reached the ripe old age of, shall we say, over 50 without some dreadful sickness or disease or accident or something like that, and you’ve never wanted for food other than through your own fault, and you’ve never suffered from war other than your own fault, you’re incredibly lucky and therefore you shouldn’t allow negative thoughts [about ageing].”
~ Ranulph Fiennes
Epictetus on Strengths
“The possession of a particular talent is instinctively sensed by its owner”
Epictetus
Dick Winters on Perseverance
“Hang Tough!–Never, ever, give up.”
~ Dick Winters
Winston Churchill on Work
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
~ Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein on Work, Play and Silence
“If A is success in life, then
A = x + y + z.
Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
~ Albert Einstein
A Few Scots Proverbs
Better alane than in ill company.
Better rue sit than rue flit.
Cut your coat according to your claith.
Daylight will peep through a sma hole.
Enough’s as good as a feast.
Fore-warned, half armed.
He’ll soon be a beggar that canna say nae.
He that does you an ill turn will ne’er forgie you.
He that lives upon hope has a slim diet.
He that looks to frets, frets follow him.
He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut.
His heart is in his hose.
Law-makers should na be law-breakers.
Laugh at leisure, ye may greet e’er night.
Learn you tae an use and ye’ll ca’t custom.
Little ken’d the less cared for.
Make the best of an ill bargain.
Malice is mindfou.
Never quat certainty for hope.
Oppression will make a wise man mad.
Set a knave to grip a knave.
She‘s better than she‘s bonny.
The higher up the greater fa‘.
The mair noble the mair humble.
The mair mischief the better sport.
The poor man’s ay put to the warst.
Epictetus on Desires
“To (children) who put their hand into a narrow necked earthen vessel and bring out figs and nuts, this happens; if they fill the hand, they cannot take it out, and then they cry. Drop a few of them and you will draw things out. And do you part with your desires: do not desire many things and you will have what you want. ”
Epictetus, Discourses
Roz Chast was Unhappy
“No one encouraged me to be a cartoonist… I showed my work and they just said, ‘I didn’t know you were this unhappy.’ ”
~ Roz Chast
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/30/scenes-from-the-life-of-roz-chast/amp