Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Quotes from the Bemused Writer

Thanks to a certain Sarcastic Broad for some thoughts today:


For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way.  Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
   — Father Alfred D’Souza 

Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could.  Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
   — Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The second one reminds me of a favorite prayer.

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