The Future is not a destination. We build it every day in the present.
The whole essay, Touching the Future, is worth a read
What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
The Future is not a destination. We build it every day in the present.
The whole essay, Touching the Future, is worth a read
.. 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.
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” —Mortimer Adler
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.”
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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.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)