In The Gutter, Looking At the Stars


We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

            -Oscar Wilde

What If We Had Had One More Hero


As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

            -Ernest Hemingway

Happiness v. Contentment

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
            -D. Jerrard


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Happiness is contentment; most are not content to learn this.

      -K. Michael Prewitt

Idle Minds

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

            -George Bernard Shaw

Mixing It Up

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

            -Henry Adams

Giving

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

            -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speculating on the Future


There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate – when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

            -Mark Twain

Present & Content in This Moment

I still lived in the future – a habit which is the death of happiness.

            -Quentin Crisp

Present Perfect

I never think of the future; it comes soon enough.

            -Albert Einstein

Not to be Overwhelmed


The best thing about the future is that is comes one day at a time.

            -Dean Acheson

The Distance Between Us


Go often to the house of a friend for weeds choke the unused path.

            -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Three Old Friends


There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

            -Benjamin Franklin