"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson

The crisis according to Albert Einstein

Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation.
For all crises bring progress.

Creativity is born from anguish, just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventive is born, as well as discoveries, and big strategies. Who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome. Who blames his failure to a crisis neglects his own talent, and is more respectful to problems than to solutions. Incompetence is the true crisis.

The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find the solutions to their problems. There’s no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There’s no merit without crisis. It’s in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it.
Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead.

Let us stop, once and for all, the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -

Sir Winston Churchill British

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill - "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."

Winston Churchill, in response. - "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second...if there is one."

“A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast”. Groucho Marx

Thank You GBS

On a day where questions come up about what is it really that I'm doing everyday and why I'm doing it, George Bernard Shaw brings the answer:

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

"O orcamento nacional precisa ser equilibrado. As dividas publicas devem ser reduzidas, a arrogancia das autoridades deve ser moderada e controlada. Os pagamentos a governo estrangeiros devem ser reduzidos se a nacao nao quiser ir a falencia. As pessoas devem novamente aprender a trabalhar em vez de viver por conta publica." Cicero - Roma 55 AC...

Clarice Lispector III

Porque eu fazia do amor um cálculo matemático errado: pensava que, somando as compreensões, eu amava. Não sabia que, somando as incompreensões é que se ama verdadeiramente. Porque eu, só por ter tido carinho, pensei que amar é fácil.

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

Emily Dickinson

Happy Birthday Di!

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way." - Sublime words by Hitchens

"The only reason I wouldn't want to meet Shakespeare; is because I can meet him, anytime, because he is immortal in the works he's left behind, if you've read those, meeting the author would must certainly be a dissapointment!"

Inspiring

'I haven’t died on schedule, and I’ve been learning not to live life on one either.'
Mark Trautwein

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/opinion/05trautwein.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

Let the mystery writ upon the jaguars die with me. He who has glimpsed the universe, he who has glimpsed the burning designs of the universe, can have no thought for a man, for a man’s trivial joys or calamities, though he himself be that man. He was that man, who no longer matters to him. What does he care about the fate of that other man, what does he care about the other man’s nation, when now he is no one? That is why I do not speak the formula, that is why, lying in darkness, I allow the days to forget me.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God, in The Aleph

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Anonymous

Se a nossa vida é provisória, que seja linda e louca nossa história, pois o valor das coisas não está no tempo que elas duram, mas na intensidade com que acontecem. Por isso existem momentos inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde

(com uma hora de atraso)

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Research Quotes XVIII

If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,
Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known.
Weep if you must,
Parting is hell,
But life goes on,
So sing as well.

Joyce Greenfeld, Joyce: by Herself and Her Friends

Research Quotes XVII

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie or the new Eloise

Research Quotes XVI

After all, what is death? Just nature’s way of telling us to slow down.

Dick Sharples, In Loving Memory