Tag Archives: Optimism

The Secret Of Life: George Sand

Posted on 16/07/2013 by layanglicana

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s … Continue reading →

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He Never Expected Much: Thomas Hardy

Posted on 08/06/2013 by layanglicana

Well, World, you have kept faith with me, Kept faith with me; Upon the whole you have proved to be Much as you said you were. Since as a child I used to lie Upon the leaze and watch the … Continue reading →

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Looking On The Bright Side: Sir Thomas More

Posted on 03/05/2013 by layanglicana

Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own? Sir Thomas More 1478-1535 Roper, Life of Sir Thomas More (1935) p.83

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The World According To Gore Vidal

Posted on 25/04/2013 by layanglicana

Forcing the world to adjust to oneself has always seemed to me an honorable life work…That one fails in the end is irrelevant. Gore Vidal Behind The Scenes, ed Joseph McCrindle The illustration is copyright: solarseven via Shutterstock

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Optimism: Bernard Baruch

Posted on 05/04/2013 by layanglicana

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king that he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year—on condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of … Continue reading →

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Hope: Erich Fromm

Posted on 26/01/2013 by layanglicana

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm (1900 – 1980) The illustration is ‘Hope’ by George … Continue reading →

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Optimism

Posted on 25/12/2012 by layanglicana

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) The illustration is a portrait of Marthe MarieTronchin  c 175o by Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789), a Swiss painter via Wikimedia

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