Friday's quote XI

Beware of fainting-fits, (...) beware of swoons, (...) a frenzy-fit is not one quarter so pernicious. It is a good exercise for the Body, and if not too violent is, I dare say, conductive to Health in its consequences -

                                                                                                                  - Miss Jane Austen -

Happy Friday! 

Such is Life

Friday's quote X

 

PANTA RHEI

 

 

Heraclitus

Friday's quote IX

Today's quote is a poem, please don't blame me, it's been a tough week.

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tires by waiting
Or being lied to, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way into hating,
And yet, not look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
And treat those two imposters just the same.
If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or see the things you gave your live to broken,
And stoop, and build'em up with worn out tools.

Of you can make a heap of all your winnings,
And risk them all in one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on, when there is nothing in you,
Except the will which says to them "hold on".

If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch,
If neither foe, nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all of men count on you but none too much.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And, which is more, you'll be a man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling


I am holding on to a small piece of yellow paper. Hope to tell you about it, some day.

Such is Life

Friday's quote VIII

Monday afternoon, and I keep going over an idea that makes it hard to concentrate. I do not travel as much as I would like to. Indeed I do not.

Easter holidays spent at home with the family and suddenly I had the rush idea to get away for the weekend, so tickets and hotel were booked and paid for and I may be continuing my "A day in..." series after I complete Stockholm, who knows!

The problem is, of course, work. The excitement of the first few hours after booking everything has lead to the anxiety of spending a weekend away from emails, desks, bosses and work. So when it all came down to picking a quote for today, this (somewhat cheesy) quote from another eminent politician of the early 20th century seemed just right:

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Theodore Roosevelt

Happy weekend.

Such is Life

Friday's quote VII

Here I was, Friday evening at work, waiting for comments to a report... and I remembered I owed you a quote! Quotes seem to be the only post that keeps this blog alive lately, it may seem stupid, but if I star posting one silly easy post once a week, it may be easier to post twice a week after that, right?

Anyway, I was talking about patience and waiting, and today's theme for the quote seemed then so obvious...

“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Well, Mr. Franklin, as much as I admire you and you are wrong. "He who can delegate can have what he will" (in the short term at least). And I walked out of the office, for the whole week.

 

Frohe Ostern!

 

Such is Life

Friday's quote VI

I watched the las episode of Clone Wars season 5 last night and I don't know when I'll recover from the shock.

So today's quote is the opening quote of the episode.

May the force be with you.

Friday's quote V

About sickness...

If you wonder who the author is, check him out on Wikipedia.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg

Friday's quote IV

Purpose, my friends.

Happy weekend.

Such is Life

Friday's quote III

I am so tired today...

 

Such is Life.

Friday's quote II

With Valentine's day still floating in the air, I was looking for a romatic quote and came by this quote by Mr. Oscar Wilde:

"if you are not too long, I will wait here all my life" 

 

 

The picture is from the wonderful Mr. Wonderful (I am addicted to all their designs). I was looking for the exact translation into English of the quote when Mr. Wilde surprised me with this:

 

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

 

Think not of it the misogynist side, which may be quite obvious but go for the "extraordinary". It made me smile. I think this quote may just have backfired on Mr. Wilde's face.

 

Such is Life

 



Friday's quote

Yay! New section, and this section is so effortless I may actually keep it.

Fridays are good days in general, work week over, people in good mood, afternoon of shopping or cleaning or any other thing that is not work. I love Fridays!

Fridays deserve a post.

Today's quote rests in a magnet on my mom's fridge. It hit me in a shop in New York some years ago and it has that powerful simplicity that makes you mull over it on and on. I felt it was the kind of quote that could make a good opening section post.

You know him, he was good with words this man, and a friend of the Doctor! So there in no need for further introductions. I am sure he will visit this section often.

To Friday! And to a nice relaxing weekend for you all.