01.29.12
There are very few thoughts or concepts that can’t be put into plain English, provided anyone truly wants to do it. But for everyone who strives for clarity and simplicity, there are three who for one reason or another prefer to draw the clouds across the sky.
—E. B. White, Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style
01.02.12
The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
—Pema Chödrön
12.22.12
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
—Matsuo Basho
12.12.11
If you only gave yourself credit, pawl, for all the things you do that you do not give yourself credit for, you’d be astonished to learn how much you really do accomplish in a single day. Every single day.
The Universe