"Mid pleasures and palaces
we may roam,
Be it ever so humble,
there's no place like home."
J.H. Payne, 1791-1852
AMERICAN DRAMATIST, POET AND ACTOR
2007-04-24 08:55:06 · 8 answers · asked by holy_see 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Simple truth is lost in the equivocation of teaching (Dante: Paradiso XXIX: 75)
Verbose expressions of searching can be an end in itself, but for me it must be more. The expression of the journey is the means to reaching a destiation on that journey. Though sometimes fewer words are needed. Truth is lovingly poetic, life is truth in all it's beauty. Truth, love and beauty, the plait that is life. Faith, love and hope.
2007-04-25 10:56:53 · answer #1 · answered by phantaszjia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
' we may not choose the world . we have hardly any choice for ourselves. we follow with our eyes the bloody and horrid line of march of extreme winter, as it passes away. but we cannot hold back the spring. we cannot make the birds silent, prevent the bubbling of the wood-pigeons. we cannot stay the fine world of silver-fecund creation from gathering itself and taking itself upon us. wether we will or not, the daphne tree will soon be giving off perfume, the lambs dancing on two feet, the celandines will twinkle all over the ground, there will be a new heaven and new earth.
for it is in us, as well as without us. those who can may follow the columns of winter in their retreat from the earth. some of us, we have no choice, the spring is within us, the silver fountain begins to bubble under our breast, there is gladness in spite of ourselves. And on the instant we accept the gladness ! the first day of change, out whistles an unusual interrupted paean, a fragment that will augment itself imperceptibly. And this in spite of the extreme bitterness of the suffering, in spite of the myriads of torn dead. (...)
2007-04-24 10:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by ‽ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Determination.
2007-04-24 09:19:45 · answer #3 · answered by foxylady 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rather than having "words to live by," I suggest having people to live for, accompanied by a wisdom to LIVE in a wise fashion. Maybe.
2007-04-24 09:34:07 · answer #4 · answered by krneel128 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Patience and perseverance is a Bishop to his Excellency" (Dad quote from a unknown author)
"The skunk sat on the stump and the stump thought the skunk stunk and the skunk thought the stump stunk"
"Reject rejection"
2007-04-24 09:09:53 · answer #5 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that is really good!! i like it a lot! homem is always the best place. my words to live bye are either live laugh love or eat. sleep. surf.
2007-04-24 09:03:40 · answer #6 · answered by ♥愛♥ 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't walk in front of me I may not follow....Don't walk behind me I may not lead....just walk beside me and be my friend.....I always liked that one....
2007-04-24 09:03:02 · answer #7 · answered by Erinyes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Better to live for something rather than die for nothing..
2007-04-24 09:18:59 · answer #8 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋