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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
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Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
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Be grateful for small mercies.
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The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
