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24 October 98 There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. (Sophia Loren) Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. (Don Marquis)
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford) Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilightthat knows neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
22 October 98 One of the illusions of life is that the
present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year. He only is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who
allows it to be invaded with worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with
it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with
too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and
fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (both from Ralph Waldo Emerson) 21 October 98
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. (Dale Turner) That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. (Lisa Alther) |
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