The Future is not a destination. We build it every day in the present.
The whole essay, Touching the Future, is worth a read
Tag: Quotes
QOTD
.. Deep Change (in our real lives as well as in fiction) happens not in clamorous, action-filled moments but in quiet, pensive beats when the human heart, at the finish of a protracted, often unconscious, process of evolution concludes and cements its transformation.
Steven Pressfield, in a blog post on The Power of a Private Moment.
QOTD
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” —Mortimer Adler
Construe
The quote, from Mr. Billy Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar. HT: Wordsmith.org
“But men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”
Exigency
One of my longest-standing subscriptions to a newsletter is the most pleasurable Wordsmith.org
This week’s theme of words have usage examples that are food for thought. I’ve written out one – exigency – in a poem by Emily Dickinson.
Courage
Trying out a new hand. No exemplars to go off, so a mix of Blackletter and Fraktur in this mess.
on Reflection..
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
on Immortality
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)