April 15, 2014

Good Morning!

Today is the birthday of Henry James (1843 – 1916) who said:

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”

and

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

and

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

It is also the birthday of A. Philip Randolph (1889 – 1979) who said:

“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they do not know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated.”

And that of Corrie Ten Boom (1892 – 1983) who said:

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

Happy Birthday to Helene Hanff (1916 – 1997) who said:

“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

Finally, birthday wishes to Emma Thompson (1959 - ) who said:

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

and

“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”