Confusion

Never confuse movement with action.

           Ernest Hemingway, Papa Hemingway

 

 

 

 

 

Be the light

Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux:
etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light—
although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

                        Saint Augustine, Works, Johannis Evangelum

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unexpected things

After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...

The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...

In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

 

 

 

 

 

Lingo

If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys,
    and let 'em hang around together for about a month,
        and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys
            are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do.

You'll never see the black guys going,
    "Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!"
        But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going,
            "What's happenin'?"

                    George Carlin, Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (Album)

 

 

 

 

 

Happy life

A happy life consists not in the absence,
        but in the mastery of hardships.

                Helen Keller, The Simplest Way to be Happy