Reflection for the Day 2013-05-18T17:13:33Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2013, tbf May 16, 2013 2013-05-18T17:13:33Z 2013-05-16T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2628 2013-05-16T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com

Honor is due to those who are keeping watch.

-C. P. Cavafy
  Greek poet (1863-1933)

Source: "Thermopylae," translated by
David Ferry, American poet (b. 1924), collected in Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations ( buy from Amazon)


]]> May 15, 2013 2013-05-17T14:32:31Z 2013-05-15T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2627 2013-05-15T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Everything that happens is as simple and familiar as the rose in spring, the fruit in summer.
- Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor & philosopher (121-180 AD)

Source: Meditations, book four, trans. by Gregory Hayes(buy on Amazon)

]]> May 14, 2013 2013-05-17T14:19:23Z 2013-05-14T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2626 2013-05-14T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.
- Stanislaw Lec
  Polish writer and aphorist (1909-1966)

Source: Unkempt Thoughts (buy on Amazon)


]]> May 13, 2013 2013-05-15T16:32:07Z 2013-05-13T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2625 2013-05-13T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com The most useful books are those of which readers themselves compose half.
- Voltaire
  French writer (1694-1778)

Source: The Philosophical Dictionary (buy from Amazon)

]]> Sunday May 12, 2013 2013-05-14T13:59:14Z 2013-05-12T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2624 2013-05-12T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com

People do not change overnight, but seek to continue a former state of affairs in the guise of a new one.
-Marcel Proust
  French writer (1871-1922)


Source: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time), transl. by James Grieve (buy on Amazon)


]]> May 11, 2013 2013-05-15T16:44:27Z 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2623 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com As far back as we know history people are about the same as they were.



- Gertrude Stein
  American writer(1874-1946)

Source:Picasso(buy on Amazon)

]]> May 10, 2013 2013-05-12T18:28:48Z 2013-05-10T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2622 2013-05-10T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

- Alain de Botton
  Swiss/British writer and philosopher ( b. 1969)

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy(buy on Amazon)


]]> May 9, 2013 2013-05-11T14:53:59Z 2013-05-09T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2621 2013-05-09T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Sophistication is upscale conformity.
-James Richardson
   American poet and aphorist (b.1950)

Source: "Even More Aphorisms and ten-second Essays from Vectors 3.0" in Best American Poetry 2011, series editor David Lehman (buy on Amazon

]]> May 8, 2013 2013-05-10T14:27:20Z 2013-05-08T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2620 2013-05-08T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Philosophy and wine have many connections and some similarities.
- Barry C. Smith
  British philosopher and educator (b. 1958)

Source:introduction to Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine (buy on Amazon)

]]> May 7, 2013 2013-05-09T22:47:08Z 2013-05-07T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2619 2013-05-07T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Let everybody in the city think of the word "yes" at the same time for 30 seconds.
- Yoko Ono
   Japanese artist, musician, and writer ( b.1933)

Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings (buy on Amazon)


]]> May 6, 2013 2013-05-08T16:48:36Z 2013-05-06T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2618 2013-05-06T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.



- David Byrne
  Scottish-born musician and writer(b. 1952)

Source: Bicycle Diaries (buy on Amazon)


]]> May 6, 2013 2013-05-08T16:35:58Z 2013-05-06T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2617 2013-05-06T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.
- David Byrne
  Scottish-born musician and writer (b.1952)

Source: Bicycle Diaries (buy on Amazon)

]]> Sunday May 5, 2013 2013-05-07T14:41:43Z 2013-05-05T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2616 2013-05-05T05:00:00Z To be human is to exist not in a world of things but in a world of the meanings of things. It is to exist in those precarious human inventions that relate us to the things we would know... tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com To be human is to exist not in a world of things but in a world of the meanings of things. It is to exist in those precarious human inventions that relate us to the things we would know through the meanings we attribute to them.
- Lee Thayer
   American writer, educator, communications consultant (b. 1927)

Source: Pieces: Toward a Revisioning of Communication/Life(buy on Amazon)

]]> May 4, 2013 2013-05-06T15:47:58Z 2013-05-04T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2615 2013-05-04T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Why, when there could have been nothing, is there something? This is a great mystery.
-Jane Kenyon
  American poet (1947-1995)

Source: quoted in a biographical note in Good Poems for Hard Times, edited
by Garrison Keillor(buy on Amazon)


]]> May 2, 2013 2013-05-04T21:37:00Z 2013-05-02T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2013://1.2614 2013-05-02T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Think of the wren and how little flesh is needed to make a song.
- Galway Kinnell
   American poet (b. 1927)

Source:"Why Regret?" link

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