"The man who longs for some crisis in life, wherein he may show mighty courage, while he is expending no portion of that courage in bearing bravely the pretty trials, sorrows and disappointments of daily life, is living in an air-castle. He is just a sparrow looking enviously at the mountain crags where the hardy …
Category: Observations on Life
Living from the Inside Out
A newborn child has no dreams, no hopes, no failures, no past experiences in particular that stand in the way of simply being himself in the moment. His desire to achieve has not yet come to focus and he knows nothing other than being who he is, where he is and how he is. He …
Slowing Down Time
"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind." ~ Giordano Bruno I have often considered - and not without wonder - the generally held opinion in those well my senior that time passes more quickly the older one becomes. Childhood, from the perspective of the child, lasts forever, while those in their …
Intimations of Immortality
H.G. Wells once wished that he could "...go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of [his] own." I imagine that many have shared his dream of bending time, where perhaps the bad times might pass more quickly and the good times might be more thoroughly enjoyed, but given our present technology we do not …
Living in an Air Castle V
"The one great defense of humanity against the charge of unfulfilled duties is 'lack of time.' The constant clamoring for time would be pathetic, were it not for the fact that most individuals throw away more of it than they use. Time is the only really valuable possession of man, for without it every power …
Living in an Air Castle IV
"Men sometimes grow mellow and generous in the thought of what they would do if great wealth came to them. 'If I were a millionaire,' they say,—let the phrase melt sweetly in their mouths as though it were a caramel,—'I would subsidize genius; I would found a college; I would build a great hospital; I …
Living in an Air Castle III
"The secret of true living—mental, physical and moral, material and spiritual,—may be expressed in five words: Live up to your portion. This is the magic formula that transforms air-castles into fortresses." ~ William George Jordan There are, generally speaking two types of people: those who live up to their portion and those who don't. Those …
Living in an Air Castle II
"Living in the future is living in an air-castle. Tomorrow is the grave where the dreams of the dreamer, the toiler who toils not, are buried. The man who says he will lead a newer and better life tomorrow, who promises great things for the future, and yet does nothing the present to make that …
The Inner Life
"The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not properly a personality at all. He floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions--such a man is …
Living in an Air Castle I
"Living in an air-castle is about as profitable as owning a half-interest in a rainbow. It is no more nourishing than a dinner of twelve courses—eaten in a dream. Air-castles are built of golden moments of time, and their only value is in the raw material thus rendered valueless. The atmosphere of air-castles is heavy …
Gregory Hake 