Neopage

Trust no future, however pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living Present!
Heart within and God overhead.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve
over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future,
for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth remembering.

- Ida Scott Taylor

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand
only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look
at with humility. This is a genuine religious feeling and has
nothing to do with mysticism.

- Albert Einstein


Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are
beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home;
that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and
reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and
irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

- John Muir

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

- Louis Aragon


To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

- Peter McWilliams


Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

- Brian Tracy

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.
There is visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is
to toil. To think is to do.


Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


- Victor Hugo

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

- Erma Louise Bombeck








Erma Louise Bombeck was born at Dayton, Ohio on this day in 1927. She started her career in journalism right out of high school, taking time off for college and later took time to raise a family. With her final return to newspapers everywhere, she became one of the most astute observers of the modern family, and possibly the most amusing. For today I tossed out all the housekeeping comments, everything about keeping warring children alive, and most of the diet stuff, and what's left reveals her as an inspiring guide to modern life.

The man who trims himself to suit everybody
will soon whittle himself away.

- Charles M. Schwab










Charles Michael Schwab was born at Williamsburg, Pennsylvania on this day in 1862. After graduating from high school in 1880 he went to work for Carnegie Steel as a "stake driver" in a mill. Within six months he had gone from unskilled labor to assistant plant manager, and in 1887 was superintendent of Carnegie's Homestead Works, then president of Carnegie Steel ten years later. Schwab, no relationship to the Charles R. Schwab of the stock brokerage firm, was the liaison between Carnegie and J. P. Morgan in the creation of U. S. Steel Corp in 1901 and then served as the firm's first president. Personality conflicts led him to leave three years later when he founded Bethlehem Steel, where he became known for motivating his workforce. When a plant engineer called his production goals crazy, Schwab told the man he'd pay off his mortgage when the furnaces reached his target; six months later the man owned his home outright. He gambled on creating the H-Beam for construction in 1908, which made the modern high-rise building possible and put Bethlehem in first place in the industry.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

- Aesop


False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we
walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the
shade.

- John Christian Bovee


PS: 두번째 quote의 비유가 참 절묘한것 같다. 해석을 하자면
"그릇된 친구는 그림자와 같다. 우리가 햇빛아래서 걸을때는
붙어 있지만, 우리가 그늘에 발을 딛는순간 떠나버린다."

If you cry Forward! you must without fail make plain in what
direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you
call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will
go in directions precisely opposite?




There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.


- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Do not rely completely on any other human being,
however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

- Agnes McPhail


The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being
overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often,
and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for
the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.


- William James