“Poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.”
Blog
Short blog posts, journal entries, and random thoughts. Topics include a mix of personal and the world at large.
Start living now
“You don’t have to find out you’re dying to start living”
Yesterday's home-runs
“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games”
All progress depends on the unreasonable
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”
Life measured in achievement
“To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. Indeed, life is not measured in years alone, but in achievement.”
Don't ponder the consequences
“Like anything that’s fun, if you stop and ponder the consequences for too long, you’ll never know how life-affirming it might have been”