The Pearl,

(Last night I stayed in a hotel called Pearl View looking across at Penang, our "Pearl Of The Orient". Today's post is about pearl.)

“Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase”

- John Balguy


It is said the best pearl is produced in a calm sea.

- Ghostwise

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“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl—how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

“If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it..."

- John Steinbeck ("The Pearl")


If you found a pearl of great value and thought it a curse of bad luck, would you throw it back into the sea?

- Ghostwise

A Man Who Knows The Price Of Everything.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt


I would rather stand by the man who fought and failed than those who stood by and criticized his failures because he has my admiration for trying and also because I know such man always makes a better friend.

- Ghostwise

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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

- Oscar Wilde


A man who trusts no one but himself doesn’t know the value of anything.

- Ghostwise

The Wise Pays A High Price To Be Wise.

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise”

- Sara Teasdale


The wise pays a high price to be wise.

- Ghostwise

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“It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools”

- Spanish Proverb


Only trouble is wise men weep too often and laugh too infrequent.

- Ghostwise