Monday, September 24, 2007

Some nice thoughts

Martin Luther King:"History will record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition, was not the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people – but the appalling silence and indifference of the good people. Our generation will not only have to repent for the words and acts of the children of darkness, but also for the fears and apathy of the children of light."

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Some nice thoughts

http://devizen.com/blog/2007/09/11/ruin/
Blaise Pascal: “We never keep to the present. We … anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is… [We] think of how we are going to arrange things over which we have no control for a time we can never be sure of reaching… Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”