Hi readers. I’m taking a quick break from celebrating Undertow’s 10th birthday to ask, “Do you have a few favorite sayings or phrases that bring you hope, wisdom, or maybe a laugh?” I’d love to see them if you want to share them in the Comments section. I recently found a few stashed away in my files, so today I thought I’d send them along.
I also want to recommend a wonderful book by James Geary, The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism. I love it! Here’s a quip from Heraclitus (C. 540 – 480 BCE), “One ought not to talk or act as if he were asleep.” I gotta think about that a while…
Enjoy!
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- Nietzsche (my husband’s favorite philosopher): “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” From: Quote 48: What Vs Why
- Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~Carl Sagan. The Sagan Standard: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence – Effectiviology
- Galileo: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.” From: Galileo Galilei – Wikiquote
- What the old man sees sitting down, the young man cannot see standing on a tree. Nigerian proverb. From: Elderly have Deeper Insight
- “Don’t make excuses for not working—make things with the time, space, and materials you have, right now.” From: Creativity is subtraction – EntreGurus
Thanks for reading!
Your writer on the wing,
Charlene
Steve Lig
The life you want is on the other side of what you’re avoiding. -Jimmy Carr
Charlene L. Edge
I like that! And thanks for introducing me to Jimmy Carr, a comedian and author.