The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
Robert Ludlum
Archives For November 30, 1999
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Stephen E. Ambrose.
Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don’t in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (via reichsmarschall)
Schemes of thought such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism, fix men’s affections on the future ─ on the very core of temporality. Hence nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past, and love to the present; fear, avarice, and ambition look ahead.
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
재산은 인생의 곤경에서 사람의 마음을 안심시켜 주기 위해 있는 것이지만, 인생은 재산을 모으기 위한 목적으로 있는 것이 아니다. (Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.)
한국 속담, Korean Proverb
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers
All little creatures are beautiful…every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
Brian Jacques, Outcast of Redwall
행복은 인간의 몸에 좋다. 하지만 인간의 정신력이 키워지는 것은 바로 깊은 슬픔의 체험을 통해서이다. (Happiness is beneficial for body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.)
한국 속담, Korean Proverb
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
Brian Jacques, Mattimeo
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 