Thursday, April 19, 2007

A Short List of Stuff I Believe Today

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. (Rick Warren)

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

Rivalry is better than envy. (Mongo Proverb)

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend. (Senegal Proverb)

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. (Albus Dumbledore)

It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there. (William Carlos Williams)

Fiction is a necessity; literature is a luxury. (G.K. Chesterton)

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