Born in the morning,
the gentle breeze of Spring, foredawn —
so I got my name.
Time flies and life too —
after I turned forty — time
flies faster, life too.
I love animals,
plants, sunshine, books and pen,
my wife, what have you.
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“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” — Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar (real name: Hilary Hinton Ziglar), the American author and motivational speaker, died at age 86.
The boss is long gone
his growl resounds and lingers —
vi-be-rating-ing.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
This is one of my favorite quotes, similar to that old Navajo proverb “You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”
Some people pretend to…
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” — Jack London
Jack London (real name: John Griffith Chaney), the American novelist, died at age 40.
“The…
“Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn’t have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.” — Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow, the American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, died at age 72.
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, the greatest Russian writer, died at age 82.
“If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust, the French novelist best known for his 3,000-page masterpiece “Remembrance of Things Past” or “In Search of Lost Time”, died at age 51.
Outside the ice field,
dogs pull the sled; inside home
firewood crackles.
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