A view of life and commercial real estate from Newark and Licking County, Ohio
This is the lesson we insecure overachievers could do with getting into our skulls: actions don't have to be things that we grind out, day after day, in order to inch ever closer to some elusive state of finally getting to qualify as adequate humans. Instead, they can just be enjoyable expressions of the fact that that's what we already are.
-Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals
"Best time of the day to be out there, though. You wake up before the sun, see a new day unfold right in front of you on the water. Ain't none of us guaranteed another hour of living, don't care who you are or how much you got. Might as well get up early and enjoy what time you got left, I say."
-David Baldacci, The Edge
A man advanced in dignity and age counted drink among the three principal comforts that he used to say he had left in life. But he took it in the wrong way. Fastidiousness is to be avoided in it, and careful selection of wines. If you make your pleasure depend on drinking good wine, you condemn yourself to the pain of sometimes drinking bad wine. We must have a less exacting and freer taste. To be a good drinker, one must not have so delicate a palate. The Germans drink almost all wines with equal pleasure. Their aims is to swallow rather than to taste. They have much the better of the bargain. Their pleasure is much more plentiful and ready at hand.
-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works, Book Two, Chapter 2
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