Commonplace Book

A collection of thoughts, ideas, anecdotes, poems, observations, and quotes that stood out and caught my attention, some with comment, some without. Essentially a scrapbook, a repository of thoughts too good to just pass over and let go.

"If you never risk to lose

You may never get to win

If you never venture out

You will see nothing."

(Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Doors)

"If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

(Often attributed to T. S. Eliot)

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

(Marcus Aurelius, 121-180. Roman emperor and philosopher)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

(John F Kenney (1917-1963), Address on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Peace, March 13, 1962)