This Day to Day Living

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?

- William Makepeace Thackeray

This Moment is Enough

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,
A flask of wine, a book of verse - and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness -
And wilderness is enow.


    -Edward FitzGerald

Staving Off the Proverbial Tomorrow


We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.

            - Sydney Smith

In the Moment


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

            - Epictetus

Contentment


No lure is greater than to possess what others want, no disaster greater than not to be content with what one has.

            -Lao Tzu

Dark Humor, Light Soul


Comedy is the last refuge of the non-conformist mind.

            -George Seldes

Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind


As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

            - Julius Caesar

'Up Here... I'm Already Gone!'


Winter is in my head, but spring is in my heart.

            - Victor Hugo