April 10, 2014

Good Morning!

Today is the birthday of William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830) who said:

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”

and

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”

and

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

It is also the birthday of Paul Theroux (1941 - ) who said:

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”

and

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

and

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.”

Finally, happy birthday to Anne Lamott (1954 - ) who said:

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

and

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

and

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”