Thought For The Day

[KateESal]

So who the bloody hell is imagining this damn virus, eh?! I want a word with them. Tell them to imagine something else, please.

I bet it's bloody Albert Camus.

No, wait...

Dean bloody Koonzt!! So, not only does he get a sales boost, everyone thinks he's a flippin' prophet.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

It's really a way of gathering the ingredients for Soylent Green...yum yum!

Soylent Green - Wikipedia

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas A. Edison

 

[CageSage]

Not always - we see more clearly, think more truly, when the risk is greatest. We see our true selves when tested against dire adversity.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may be.

May Sarton

 

[Paul Whybrow]

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The obstacle is the path.

Zen proverb

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Nobody knows anything….Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson

 

[Paul Whybrow]

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination as I do.

Anaïs Nin

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E.L. Doctorow

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?

Frank Scully

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.

Anaïs Nin

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I’ve dreamed in my life dreams that have stayed with me, even after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Brontë

 

[Steve C]

Acid used to alter the colour of my mind and gave me some great dreams

 

[Katie-Ellen]

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas A. Edison

But thinking doesn't happen in a vacuum. With luck, the thinking done in solitude will come to the fore in a time of turmoil.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes."

Henry Cloud

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I want by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all I am capable of becoming….This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it; it’s no longer so. I feel happy – deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield: Journal (1922) last entry.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we achieve it.

Michelangelo

 

[Paul Whybrow]

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca the Younger

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The Last Laugh


I made hay while the sun shone.
My work sold.
Now, if the harvest is over
And the world cold,
Give me the bonus of laughter
As I lose hold.

Sir John Betjeman

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[Paul Whybrow]

A classic is a book that has never finished what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

[Paul Whybrow]

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamouring to be visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose upsides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Tony Schwartz

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Patience is also a form of action.

Auguste Rodin

 

[Steve C]

I like his hat but the jacket needs a clean.