Time

Time -- that which reveals all lies, revises all forecasts and renders inadequate all excuses.

 

No matter how you rush about, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

  

Nothing lasts forever, although we often underestimate how long it will last in the meantime.

I live on a tiny planet orbiting a minor star.  Each time the planet completes an orbit, I count off a segment of my life.  Why do I do this?  I dunno, it passes the time.

~~ from Short Thoughts For The Long Haul

The Daily Grind

 "There are days when you feel that if you walked down the street in a clown costume, no one would recall seeing anyone in a clown costume."

 

"There is no actual law that says you can't get locked into a daily routine that makes you happy."

"Whatever you're trying to prove, it's good occasionally to spend a day not trying to prove it."

"Never let anything ruin your day that is not on the list of things you will let ruin your day."

~~ from Reflections 

Ah, Contentment!

"If you would find a truly contented person in this world, it would likely be someone no one thinks to envy, who seeks no attention, invites no comparison, whose contentment is their own private business."

 

"Is it surrender, or is it to find contentment -- to be happy with your consolations."

"The key to contentment is the same as the key to worry and anxiety -- you must learn to make a big deal out of nothing."

"Contentment is that rare moment when you forget what you deserve and let what you have be enough."

~~ from A Few For The Road

Memories

 "We speak of creating happy memories, only to discover that all memories are sad.  It is only a question of whether the sadness is bitter or sweet."

 

"What we envy about the folks in an old family photo is not so much the life they lived as the future they imagined."

"The hardest thing about reliving the past

Is reassembling the original cast."

~~ from A Few For The Road

Looking Ahead to Looking Back

"A toast to Twenty Twenty-Five,

The year we kept the spark alive

And proved that even old romance

Can teach itself a brand-new dance."

Ah, Romance!

 "We crave romance, but if life were truly romantic, we would all be ships passing in the night.  Fortunately, life is real, so we meet in an elevator, hit it off, marry and the species goes on." 

 

"They never met, for she waited each day at the corner of Destiny and Romance, and he hung out at the corner of Main and Elm." 

"They met at the top of the Empire State building, she a small-town girl from Nebraska and he a guy from Brooklyn who got a job as an elevator operator at the Empire State Building in order to meet girls."

You Don't Say

 "I believe in cause-and-effect, although I think in most cases the effect is the last thing the cause had in mind."

"Life is a frantic race to get things done before they don't matter any more."

"Trust me when I tell you that you've overestimated the number of things indelibly stamped on your memory."

"Doesn't seem fair that a greedy few should have all the wealth when the rest of us have put just as much greed into the effort."

"I don't claim to know everything, but the older I get, the less I have to hear to know the rest."