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A Bit of Wisdom from Isaac Watts |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 07/17/2023 02:56 PM
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Southampton, Hampshire, England...Isaac Watts 17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748
"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."
"'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again."
"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."
"Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Nikola Tesla |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 07/10/2023 10:53 AM
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New York, NY...Nikola Tesla 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” |
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Record Breaking Fourth of July Travel Projected |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/26/2023 09:54 AM
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Walnut Creek, CA...The upcoming Fourth of July holiday is expected to witness a remarkable milestone with a projected 50.7 million Americans planning to take well-deserved vacations. This unprecedented figure represents the highest travel volume ever projected by AAA. More than 5.6 million Californians are expected to travel for the holiday, a notable increase of 5 percent compared to last year.
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A Bit of Wisdom from Chesty Puller |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/26/2023 10:19 AM
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West Point, VI...Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971.
“I’ve always believed that no officer’s life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear…officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.”
“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time.”
“We make generals today on the basis of their ability to write a damned letter. Those kinds of men can’t get us ready for war.”
“Old Breed? New Breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference as long as it’s the Marine breed.”
“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
“Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.” |
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"IF" by Rudyard Kipling...Dedicated to Jay S. Hamilton & Dads Everywhere ~ By John Hamilton |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/17/2023 11:12 AM
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Arnold, CA...We originally posted this for Father's Day in 2006. My father would turn 107 this year if he were here today. This poem was my father's favorite. This one is dedicated to my Father...Jay S. Hamilton. Dad was born in November 22, 1916 and died in May 1, 1991 of a Glioblastoma brain tumor. His life saw deep tragedy but he always rose above it. He was born in a house in rural Oklahoma with no electricity or running water. His Mom burned to death when he was 9 years old from a kerosene lantern fire while he was at home.....
My Parents And Oldest Brother Circa 1943.
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A Bit of Wisdom from Adam Smith |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/16/2023 02:33 PM
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Edinburgh, Scotland...Adam Smith 16 June, 1723 - 17 July 1790. Author of Wealth of Nations and father of modern economics.
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
"It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does, or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest…either to neglect it altogether, or…to perform it in [a] careless and slovenly a manner…"
"If [justice] is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society, that fabric which to raise and support seems in this world if I may say so has the peculiar and darling care of Nature, must in a moment crumble into atoms."
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.” |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Henry David Thoreau |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/15/2023 12:24 PM
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Concord, MA...Henry David Thoreau. July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862. As summer gets up to full swing. We thought a bit of Thoreau might be in order as many of us head into the woods for a visit this summer.
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/08/2023 11:00 PM
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Phoenix, AZ...Frank Lloyd Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959
"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."
"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"Freedom is from within." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Norman Vincent Peale |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 05/31/2023 12:07 PM
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New York, NY...Norman Vincent Peale May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993
"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."
"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."
"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."
"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."
"We tend to get what we expect." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Mark Twain |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 05/17/2023 11:28 AM
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Hannibal, Missouri...Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910. Writer of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County that put Calaveras County & also Mark Twain on the map.
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"All good things arrive unto them that wait and don’t die in the meantime."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
"To eat is human…to digest‚ divine." |
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