April 1, 2023

Reflection

April 1, 2023

 

APRIL  FOOL

 

I can be a fool any day,

not just April 1^st – not just

when I don’t pause before I speak or act.

Stepping back is the step to take.

Remembering is also key.

Also questions – questions are

always better than statements.

 

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 

 April 1, 2023

Quote for Today

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Edward de Bono

Observer, June 12, 1977

 March 31, 2023

Reflection

 March 31, 2023

Quote

"He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea."

George  Herbert, 

Jacula Prudentium

 March 30, 2023

Reflection

March 30,  2023

Quote 

"He that would learn to pray, let him be in a small plane in heavy turbulence."

Bergen Evans,

p. 550 Dictionary of Quotations.

 March  29, 2023

Quote for Today

"Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage."

Dennis Potter (1934-94)

Interview with Melvyn Bragg

on  Channel 4, March 1994,

in Seeing the  Blossom (1994).

 March 28, 2023

Reflection

 March 28, 2023

Quote for Today

"But how strange  the change from major to minor

Every time we say goodbye."

Cole Porter Song: Every Time We Say Goodbye

 March 27, 2023

Reflection

 March 27, 2023

Quote for Today

"Once,  I Chang Chou, dreamed that I was a butterfly and was happy as a butterfly. I was conscious that I was quite pleased with myself  but I did not know I was Chou.  Suddenly I awoke and there I was, visibly Chou.  I do not know whether it was Chou dreaming  that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreaming that it was Chou."

Chuang Tzu c. 369-286 BC

 Chinese philosopher

Chuang Tzu ch. 2

March 26, 2023

Quote of the Day 

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast."

William Congreve (1670-1729)

 March 26, 2026

Reflection

March 25, 2023

Reflection 

 March 25, 2023

Quote for Today

"The superior understands righteousness; the inferior understands profit."

Confucius [551-479 BC]

Analects Ch. 4, v. 16