This or Something Better
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
-Antony and Cleopatra,
Act II, Scene i
Category: Inspirational
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January 24
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January 17
Talk Is Cheap
Action is eloquence.
-Coriolanus,
Act III, Scene ii -
January 9
Cherish Your Imperfect Self
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together:
our virtues would be proud,
if our faults whipped them not;
and our crimes would despair,
if they were not cherished by our virtues.–All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act IV, Scene iii -
January 5
Age Gracefully
Give me a staff of honor for mine age
But not a scepter to control the world.-Titus Andronicus,
Act I, Scene i -
December 31
Spread Happiness
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
— The Merchant of Venice,
Act III Scene ii -
December 28
Capture the Intangible
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i -
December 25
Relish Tranquility
I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.-Henry VIII,
Act III, Scene ii