Gosudar

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

There is a beautiful book you really should have a look at:
How to Draw Plants: The techniques of botanical illustration
by Keith West. 2 months ago

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 2 months ago

. . . is an eyeopener to memory possibilities. I’m glad you read it. 2 months ago

“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 2 months ago

“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 3 months ago

“The rise of Christianity and other religious movements in the Roman Empire is an example of a new gossamer spreading over a rotten civilization; though outwardly emperors and armies continued to give orders as though nothing had changed, individuals, feeling that official institutions were ceasing to be relevant to their needs, sought their consolations from each other.”

- Theodore Zeldin 3 months ago

“Wer fremde Sprechen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.”

“He who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3 months ago

“It is not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca 3 months ago

“There is a perfect rout of characters in every man – and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things.”

- Wallaace Stevens 3 months ago

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

- Joseph Addison 3 months ago

“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”

- William Hutchinson Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951) 3 months ago

Think WELL.
Be WELL.
Do WELL. 3 months ago

You’re an impressive woman, DS. Tenacious. Persevering. Resourceful. Strong. You don’t give yourself enough credit. 3 months ago

“Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.”

- Neil Gaiman 3 months ago

“An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions, and be skeptical.”

- Bill Moyers 3 months ago

“Se, lavante telerojn, ni pensas nur pri la trinkonta taso de teo, tiel hastante por malobstrukcigi la telerojn, kvazaŭ ili estus ĝenaĵo, ni ne vivas dum la tempo kiam ni lavas la telerojn. Fakte, ni estas tute nekapable konstati la miraklon de la vivo, starante apud la lavopelvo. Se ni ne povas lavi la telerojn verŝajnas, ke ni ankaŭ ne povas trinki nian teon. Trinkante la tason de teo, ni pensos pri aliaj aferoj, apenaŭ konsciaj pri la taso en niaj manoj. Tiel ni estas forsuĉitaj en la estontecon – kaj ni ne kapablas vere vivi unu minuton de la vivo.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh 3 months ago

“If, while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact, we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can’t wash the dishes, chances are that we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea we will be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future – and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh 3 months ago

English is a hegemonic language. It is not, nor can it ever be, an international language. Claude Piron explains why in The Language of Power.3 months ago

Antaŭ ol fari ion ajn, konsultu kun la kapkuseno. 4 months ago

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.”

- Lily Tomlin 4 months ago

“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”

- John Ruskin 4 months ago

“The elites that mostly run today’s industrial societies, like their equivalents in every other human society, have a deeply conservative streak under whatever surface layer of fashionable radicalism may be popular at any given time. They have the positions of influence that they do because they have the educations, hold the opinions, and think the thoughts that their peers, and more particularly the immediately prior generation of their peers, considered suitable to their roles. In a society that’s more or less sustainable, this is a powerful source of stability; in one that’s stumbled into an unsustainable human ecology, these same pressures for elite conformity can make it next to impossible for anyone in charge to think about the world in any other way than the one that’s making disaster inevitable.”

- John Michael Greer 4 months ago

“Kie diable mi troviĝas?” diris al si Gerda, kiam ŝi vekiĝis. Ŝi iris al la pordo; ĝi estas ŝlosita, kaj ŝlosilo nenie videblis. “Oni enŝlosis min!”

“Where the hell am I?” said Gerda to herself when she woke up. She went to the door; it was locked, and a key was nowhere to be seen. “I have been locked in!” 4 months ago

koncerne vian proponon = concerning your suggestion

kiom koncernas min = as far as I am concerned 4 months ago