Troublesome History

"We can live with a troublesome history as we make from our challenging present a glorious future."
Church of the Province of South Africa Minister

Irony

This a quote from "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing in a book called "Great Lives Great Deeds."
I was impressed by how true the principle is between the imagined - the dream - and the reality.

Its about Ernest Shackleton, an Irish explorer of the Antarctic. He thoroughly believed the motto of his family "By endurance we conquer." He was always at his best when everything seemed hopeless.

"Ironically, here was the moment they had dreamed of ever since the days of Ocean Camp, but, as so often happens, the reality was vastly different from the dream."

As in Shackleton's journey, so in marriage...

Life Lessons

"Life lessons are concealed in life experiences."
Bonolo Ramaja

Secrets

"You can't keep secrets for too long - it's corrosive."
Meredith Baxter

Blame

"... it seemed absurd to me to consider handing out blame. It could only divide us, and for what? ...there was absolutely no gain to blaming anyone, and a real cost cost in terms of the blow to our integrity as a group... there is no great music-making without... risk-taking."
"The Art of Possibility" p 144 Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

What I Thought Was So Miserable...

"What I thought was so miserable was actually what made me to become what I am today; who loves myself and therefore music, life, people, my work; and even miseries. I love my weeds as much as my unblossomed roses. I can't wait for tomorrow because I'm in love with today, hard work and reward... What can be better?"
Soyan Kim "The Art of Possibility" Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander