Getting Started
April 12, 2007
‘It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.
J. R. R. Tolkien, spoken by Sam, in The Fellowship of the Ring
Unique Purpose
March 11, 2007
“Believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that your life and temperament have some object on earth. Believe that you have something to give the world which cannot otherwise be given.”
G. K. Chesterton, (“Philosophy of Browning,” Robert Browning)
Enjoyment
March 10, 2007
“It is always wiser to consider not so much why a thing is not enjoyable, as why we ourselves do not enjoy it.”
G. K. Chesterton, (Illustrated London News, Feb. 28, 1931)
Swimming Upstream
February 28, 2007
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The Five Deaths of the Faith” The Everlasting Man
School of Hard Knocks
February 22, 2007
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
C. S. Lewis
Path of Wisdom
January 30, 2007
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
Treasure Snatched Away
January 23, 2007
“Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
A Dangerous Gift
January 20, 2007
“. . . for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring.
Fashionable Fallacies
January 19, 2007
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
G. K. Chesterton
He who seeks . . .
January 11, 2007
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring
