truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:50 am

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:53 am

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:55 am

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:57 am

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Wed 31 January 2007 8:58 am

...often a thought has occurred to me, and it was by writing it down that I committed it to memory. Thus in time of spiritual struggle I had it as a source of aid or relief or gratitude, supported as it was by the testimony of divine Scripture. Had I been negligent about writing it down, I would not have found it when I had need of it, and I would have been deprived of its help by that greatest of evils, forgetfulness.
St. Peter of Damaskos (Book 1:A Treasury of Divine Knowledge, The Philokalia Vol. 3 pgs. 182-183)

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 1 February 2007 8:34 am

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 1 February 2007 8:35 am

A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte