Reflection for the Day 2010-03-10T23:23:47Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2010, tbf Sunday March 7, 2010 2010-03-10T23:23:47Z 2010-03-07T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1580 2010-03-07T05:00:00Z I leave the past cold season, a time passed largely in the theater of my own mind, my inner wilderness, leaving it behind like a skin I have sloughed, and enter the wild realm that lies outside of myself... tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com I leave the past cold season, a time passed largely in the theater of my own mind, my inner wilderness, leaving it behind like a skin I have sloughed, and enter the wild realm that lies outside of myself and ultimately outside of all human knowing.
- David M. Carroll
   American naturalist, artist, and writer ( b.1942)
]]> March 5, 2010 2010-03-07T20:45:34Z 2010-03-05T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1579 2010-03-05T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Laughter is a force for democracy.
- John Cleese
   British comedian, writer, and film producer (b. 1939)
]]> March 4, 2010 2010-03-06T16:15:29Z 2010-03-04T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1578 2010-03-04T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com She had the look of a woman who likes being looked at.
- David Lehman
   American poet b.1948)
]]> March 3, 2010 2010-03-04T16:47:24Z 2010-03-03T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1577 2010-03-03T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K. Chesterton
  British writer (1874-1936)
]]> March 1, 2010 2010-03-03T14:15:38Z 2010-03-01T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1576 2010-03-01T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  French writer (1900-1944)
]]> Sunday February 28, 2010 2010-03-02T13:50:30Z 2010-02-28T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1575 2010-02-28T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
- Hippocrates
  Greek physician (460-377 BC)
]]> February 27, 2010 2010-03-02T13:35:13Z 2010-02-27T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1573 2010-02-27T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com our beginnings never know our ends.
- Harold Pinter
  British playwright (1930-2008)
]]> February 26, 2010 2010-03-01T13:52:22Z 2010-02-26T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1574 2010-02-26T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
-J. D. Salinger
  American writer 1919-2010)
]]> February 25, 2010 2010-03-01T15:20:58Z 2010-02-25T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1570 2010-02-25T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
-Jorge Luis Borges
  Argentine writer (1899-1986)
]]> February 23, 2010 2010-02-25T18:37:26Z 2010-02-23T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1568 2010-02-23T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the formula 2+ 2 = 4.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer & physician (1809-1894)
]]> February 22, 2010 2010-02-24T13:35:25Z 2010-02-22T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1563 2010-02-22T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com For every accident or event that befalls you, inquire what power you have for turning it it to use.
- Epictetus
  Greek Stoic philosopher in Rome (circa 55-135 AD)
]]> Sunday, February 21, 2010 2010-02-23T16:20:39Z 2010-02-21T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1562 2010-02-21T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
- John Locke
  British philosopher (1632-1704)
]]> February 20, 2010 2010-02-22T22:29:01Z 2010-02-20T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1561 2010-02-20T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com To keep things from being boring, you mustn't think they'll be boring, just as you mustn't be afraid you won't fall asleep if you fear insomnia.
- Leo Tolstoy
  Russian writer, philosopher, & mystic (1828-1910)
]]> February 19, 2010 2010-03-03T14:18:11Z 2010-02-19T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1560 2010-02-19T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com The essence of romance is uncertainty.
- Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854-1900)
]]> February 17, 2010 2010-02-19T22:13:19Z 2010-02-17T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2010://1.1558 2010-02-17T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com To know how good you are at something requires the very same skills that are required to do that thing.
- John Cleese
  British comedian, writer, and film producer (b. 1939)
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