Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~Samuel Smiles
May23
Monday Morning Wisdom #363
Category Archives: Monday Morning Wisdom
May16
Monday Morning Wisdom #362
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~George S. Patton
May9
Monday Morning Wisdom #361
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don’t make it yourself, it isn’t fun. It’s entertainment.
~David Mamet
May2
Monday Morning Wisdom #360
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apr25
Monday Morning Wisdom #359: U is for Peter Ustinov
The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe. ~Peter Ustinov, from Dear Me
Apr18
Monday Morning Wisdom #358: O is for Cynthia Ozick
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. ~Cynthia Ozick
Apr11
Monday Morning Wisdom #357: I is for Irwin Shaw
An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ~Irwin Shaw
Apr4
Monday Morning Wisdom #356: C is for Carl Sandberg
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. ~Carl Sandburg
Mar28
Monday Morning Wisdom #355
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar21
Monday Morning Wisdom #354
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ~Samuel Johnson
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