Gosudar

I wish you the Happiest Happiest of Birthdays!

And I send you a few random thoughts:

“To create a flower is the labour of ages.”
- William Blake

“It is a folly for him to rule over others who cannot govern himself.”
-Publius Syrus

“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose if the superfluouis and see things as they are, grand and beauitiful.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.”
- Iris Murdoch

“The cut worm forgives the plow.”
- William Blake

“Choose which seems best and, in the doing, it will become agreeable and easy.”
- Pythagoras

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.”
- Schopenhauer

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell

“Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.”
- Jean de La Bruyère

Rakkaudella,

Gosudar

“Take interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings which are designated by the expressive term: laboratories. Demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned. These are the temples of the future – temples of well-being and of happiness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Wir sollen immer der Fischer sein, das der Netz benutzt.
Und niemals ein Fisch, der vom Netz gefangen wird.”

“We should always be the fisherman using the net, and never the fish that is caught by the net.”

- Harald Lesch