Two Thoughts (7 - 13 June)

Sunday, 7 June

Two thoughts from Henri Bergson

"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

"the human mind is so constructed that it cannot begin to understand the new until it has done everything in its power to relate it to the old."

Monday, 8 June

Two thoughts from André Gide

"There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

Tuesday, 9 June

Two thoughts from Henry Miller

"I learned more from idiots and nobodies than from professors of this and that. Life is the teacher, not the Board of Education."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Wednesday, 10 June

Two thoughts from Jorge Luis Borges

"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy."

"Only in the present do things happen."

Thursday, 11 June

Two thoughts from Pablo Neruda

"Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

Friday, 12 June

Two thoughts from John Dryden

"Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong."

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Saturday, 13 June

Two thoughts from John Donne

"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

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