Deep Thoughts-Better to Bend Than Break »
By John on Jun 9, 2009 in Deep Thoughts | 1 Comment
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. –H.G. Wells
Category: Deep Thoughts
Deep Thoughts-The Highest Reward for Toil »
By John on Jun 7, 2009 in Culture, Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
Back to the Deep Thoughts Series. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it. –John Ruskin
Happy 4th Anniversary to Deep Something »
By John on May 24, 2008 in Deep Thoughts, Featured, Fun Stuff, Software, Technology | 1 Comment
It’s hard to believe, but Deep Something debuted on May 24, 2004. I can’t believe I’ve maintained this blog for that long. Lot’s of blogs out there have been abandoned over the years. Here’s to the last four years of blogging on Deep Something, here’s to the unbelievable team of developers and the open source community that make WordPress and unbelievable software platform, and here’s to four more years of raising hell.
Hunger In America »
By John on Dec 10, 2007 in Culture, Deep Thoughts, Religion, Right Wingnuts, Society | 0 Comments
I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.
The Defeat of Night by Sunrise »
By John on Jun 18, 2006 in Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. –Bern Williams
Your Legacy? »
By John on Jun 17, 2006 in Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known. –Hugh Prather
Seek help first for a friend. »
By John on Jun 16, 2006 in Deep Thoughts, Religion, Society | 0 Comments
A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first. –The Talmud
Use it or lose it. »
By John on Jun 15, 2006 in Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Never Lose A Holy Curiosity »
By John on Jun 5, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts, Science | 0 Comments
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. –Albert Einstein
The Mysterious, Source of All True Art and Science »
By John on Jun 4, 2006 in Deep Thoughts, Science | 0 Comments
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. –Albert Einstein
A Heart Full of Grace »
By John on Jun 3, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Martin Luther King Jr.
Never Haste to Day’s End »
By John on Jun 2, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime. –Dale Coleman
The Journey Matters »
By John on Jun 1, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. –Ursula K. LeGuin
We Must Sail »
By John on May 31, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts, Science | 0 Comments
I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving; To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it–but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
Discovering The Limits of the Possible. »
By John on May 30, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts, General, Science | 0 Comments
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke
Respecting Nature »
By John on May 29, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts, Science, Society, Technology | 0 Comments
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. –E.B. White
Basic Decency and Goodness »
By John on May 28, 2006 in Deep Thoughts, Society | 0 Comments
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. –Pablo Casals
A Drop In the Ocean »
By John on May 27, 2006 in Deep Thoughts, Religion, Society | 0 Comments
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. –Mother Teresa
The Price of Success »
By John on May 26, 2006 in Deep Thoughts, General | 0 Comments
The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper. –Anonymous
The Immortal Flow of Energy »
By John on May 9, 2006 in Culture, Deep Thoughts | 0 Comments
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. –Smiley Blanton
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