Words from the wise for the end of 2009

Read them and nod kids.

Being lonely:

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Sir Winston Churchill


Us:

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air. Thales of Miletus

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. Socrates

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde


Being original:

Everything has been thought of before. The problem is to think it again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality is going back to origins. Antoni Gaudí


What to do next:

A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. Mark Twain

Be good and you will be lonely. Mark Twain

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake


Love:

You are the best I got, since nothing hurts like you. Karin Boye