Doing Nothing Is Better Than Doing Nothing.

(Today I learned the meaning of bel far niente - "the beauty of doing nothing")

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing”

- Lao Tzu


You could be reaping the benefits from doing nothing;
Or you could be straining yourself doing nothing.
It is an Art, really.

- Ghostwise

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“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”

- Zen Proverb


Or you could be one with nothing.
It is Spiritual, really.

- Ghostwise

Let Each Man Exercise The Art He Knows.

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

- Thomas Moore


If you don't need art, you don't have a soul.

- Ghostwise

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)


The best and most honest advice on art that I know.

- Ghostwise

Great Is The Beginning. Greater Is The Ending.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

- Gilda Radner


We all still want good ending. But if we make the best of our life and it ends right now, that is a good ending.

- Ghostwise

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

- Lazurus Long


With that, I will end this now.

- Ghostwise

We Just Hit A Century!

(We just hit a century! This is the 100 posts since I started this blog in August. Thank you for taking the ride with me. As best as I can, I try to make this a daily affair whenever I’m not traveling. The difference with other quotations sites is that I added a twist at the end of each quotation to complement, supplement, present another point of views, or even contradict it. I feel that every good quotation contained “some truth” but not the “whole truth” for there is always another point of view. Thus, while we appreciate good quotations, we should also not take them lying down. By all means, question them. Agree if you’re in agreement. Disagree if you if you can’t. But most important of all – you should have an opinion and know what that is. This makes it more stimulating and challenging.


Another difference is that my selections of good quotations are not restricted to so-called ‘literary’ materials only. I will take them from anywhere. It could be from books, poems, speeches, or any forms of writing. But I could just as well take them from songs, movies, fairy tales or even comics with the only criteria being I enjoyed it, I think it is meaningful, it impacted me at any stage of my life from childhood upwards, it is something I wanted to share and I see beauty in it. The appreciation of beauty is a subjective one and I make no excuse for being a die-hard romantic. Some may call me a “bleeding heart”, an idealist, a dreamer maybe even a Don Quixote. To varying degree, I’m guilty of all and could be accused of worse. For I would rather be all of them than a cynic for example. So stay with me while we go for the next century.)


“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”

- Ashley Smith


Living life to the fullest begins with the appreciation of beauty.

- Ghostwise

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“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Appreciation of beauty is happiness.

- Ghostwise