A Gaelic blessing

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.


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OSCAR WILDE

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

BUDDHA

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Spanish Proverb

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

FRANCIS BACON

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

CONFUCIUS

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

CHARLES BUXTON

You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must take it.

MOTHER TERESA

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think
the ocean would be less, because of that missing drop.


This week John’s Quiet Corner includes a Chinese poem, a Turner painting, a 1940s love song and Clair de Lune (Debussy)
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WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

LANGSTON HUGHES

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

GEORGE MOORE

There is always a right way and a wrong way,
and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

MARIA ROBINSON

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

from the Tao Te Ching

There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough
Will always have enough.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

ANON

Nothing lasts for ever, not even your troubles.

FRANCIS BACON

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!


There are more famous music quotes today on John’s Quiet Corner.
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CONFUCIUS

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

IVAN TURGENEV

If you wait for the moment when absolutely everything is ready, you will never begin.

KATHLEEN NORRIS

Life is easier than you think. All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

XENOCRATES

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Buddhist Saying

As a single slab of rock won’t budge in the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise, by blame.

WALT WHITMAN

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on, and have found that none of these finally satisfy, what remains? Nature remains.


John’s Quiet Corner posted today includes a painting by Yun Shouping, a poem by Henry Austin Dobson, a poem by William Wordsworth and The Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly.
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MALCOLM FORBES

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

MAYA ANGELOU

Lift up your eyes
Upon this day breaking for you,
Give birth again
To the dream.