Thoreau on Walking

"... in the distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing and prayer. I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane a part of every day." (Henry David Thoreau)

I couldn't have said it better...

Intimacy

"Intimacy begins with oneself."  (Thomas Moore)

Agreed.

Camus on Charm

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
(Albert Camus)

Camus on Happiness

"There's no shame in preferring happiness."  (Albert Camus)

Camus on Despair and Hope

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."

(Albert Camus)

 

 

 

On Friends

"Your friends aren't what they do for a living or who their parents are or the values they claim to have, but, rather, the sum of their personalities as one experiences them day after day, year after year."
(Ray Robertson)

Sophocles on Wanting Death

"Death is not the greatest of evils.  It is worse to want to die, and not be able to."  (Sophocles)

The Supreme Court of Canada should heed this wisdom of Sophocles.