“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email February 6, 2022
“my brain filled to bursting with stories and legends of the spirits and deities of places that have been acknowledged and worshipped by men in all ages of the world’s history.”
“The Willows” in Algernon Blackwood Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
“The Singular Mark Twain [by Fred Kaplan] arouses in the reader an urgently fugitive instinct, as at the approach of an unpolished yet tenacious raconteur.”
Christopher Hitchens panning the book in The Atlantic Monthly November 2003
“You can critique marriage. Fine. But what game are you going to play? Try coming up with one on your own. Maybe you can. Maybe you’re like avant-garde Picasso, maybe you are, and maybe you have a right to make your own arrangement. Maybe you have the psychological fortitude to craft your own social institution, but I bloody well wouldn’t count on it. You’re lucky that there’s such a thing as a job, or better yet, a career. You’re lucky that there’s such a thing as friendship, as marriage, all of these social institutions. And when you criticize them, Nietzsche put it as one question of conscience, and I think it’s in Twilight of the Idols: Whether you’re a leader, or whether you’re running away, you’re outside the pack and moving in a different direction. In either case, you know, are you a rebel because you can’t fit in? Or are you a rebel because you could fit in, but you see a better way? People in that category are not that common. And the first question of conscience should be, well, ‘Which of those two are you?’ It’s highly probable that you’re the first one, and not the second, because that would mean that you would be intensely disciplined, plus creative on that dimension. Maybe that is you, and God, then we need you. You know, like, you’re an avatar of the savior under those circumstances, and maybe everyone has some of that in them.”
Jordan Peterson in a video clip from “The JBP Show” on Instagram January 18, 2022
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email January 26, 20/22
“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”
Eddie Cantor, according to www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eddie_cantor_309843
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the apparently trivial cancellation of camping lessons in Montreal by Parks Canada is a worrying symptom of mental and moral rot.
“The feeling of having taken a wrong turning in life was made worse by the fact that he could not, for the life of him, remember having taken any turnings at all.”
“Charles Fernyhough, writer”, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 11, 2010