An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
"Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those that are to come.
Existence flows past us like a river: The 'what' is in constant flux, the 'why' has a thousand variations
Nothing is stable, not even what's right here.
The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see
So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress. Or any indignation either.
As if the things that irritate us lasted." - Marcus Aurelius
"Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness."
"So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day - especially death - and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess." - Epictetus
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct it. If it be a lie, laugh at it." - Epictetus
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions." - Marcus Aurelius
