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It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are
accountable. -Moliere

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -
all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward
Everett Hale

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to
prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and
are right. -H.L. Mencken

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true. -James Branch Cabell

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Many thanks

[zaiah.livejournal.com]

Your last qoute.. on optimism - has long been made one of my own koans.. I never stumbled across who had said it though. Seems I now have a biographical search to conduct. MANY thanks!

My other personal favorite? "A voice came to me and said Smile - things could be worse. So for a while I smiled and was happy. Then things got worse."

never / forever / today

[puissance.livejournal.com]

often i tell people that
yesterday is dead
tomorrow is unborn.
today is what matters.
our troubles are to be embraced.
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the rubaiyat is lovely.
have you read it?
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by the way.
hello.
i like you. : )

Re: never / forever / today

[plural.livejournal.com]

Wise words and most fitting

another two of my favorite quotes which are on a similar theme

"Only put off today, what you are willing to die, left undone" - pablo picasso

"plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow"

I have not read the rubaiyat, but on your recommendation, I shall
look it up.

btw

Greetings and welcome,
I am of course flattered
and I would say
having read oh
the entirety of your journal (I had some free time) the other day
(well the 30days or so there are anyway)
I would say
the feeling is mutual

p