That though the radiance which was once so bright

be now forever taken from my sight.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower.

We will grieve not,

rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth.

If you drink, you die.

If you don’t drink, you die just the same.

So drink!

A sign in a Nice bar (translated from French).

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it,

casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Scottish Author: Samuel Smiles..

British scientists were eager to try out their new air pollution monitoring equipment – to their amazement, readings in Newcastle, England, showed that it was the most polluted city in England, if not the world. What could possibly be causing these extraordinarily high results? A strange hitherto undiscovered weather anomaly? A series of gigantic coal plants that had somehow been overlooked?

In time, the true reason was discovered. Technicians had forgotten to double-check where in Newcastle their equipment had been placed – by a junior staffer. It was in a parking lot where dozens of diesel trucks came and went twenty-four hours a day!

Well, it did say, this was a Park!

The worst part about being over the hill

is not being able to recall ever being on the top of it.

Take the first step in faith.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase.

Just take the first step.

Martin Luther King,

The trouble with the straight and narrow path – is that it runs through such desolate territory.

The trouble with experience – is that it usually teaches you something you really didn’t want to know.

The trouble with being punctual – is that nobody is there to appreciate it.