“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
As for me, success is tiptoeing to where you can touch the stars and the moon.
Art by Rafal Olbinski.
“Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It is about accountability.”
-Peyton Manning
Being here for my teams with a kind thought and a piece of imagination is about happiness.
My visible stories of Spring for my teams:
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
– Benjamin Disraeli (a 19th century British Prime Minister).
Art by a great gentle woman who shaped her passions into the most beautiful fairy tales ever: Beatrix Potter.
“How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago and say, “I am a whole different person right now”? If yes, then it’s real. The evidence of truth and reality lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it’s from very far away. Distance is only the evidence of what can be surpassed.”
― C. JoyBell C.
Love is always real.
Art by Vladimir Kush.
Umberto Eco – January 5, 1932 – February 19, 2016.
”To survive, you must tell stories.”
”Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.”
”Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.”
”Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”
Art by Rafal Olbinski.
Coffee and Somerset for me …
W.Somerset Maugham- 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965.
Uncanny observer of human nature and my personal trainer and influencer:
“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.”
“Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to those thirsting for laughter…”
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life.”
“All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.”
“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic”.
-Alice in Wonderland
Art by Inga Moore (illustrator of The Wind in the Willows).
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
“I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.”
-Oscar Wilde
Art – Cloud of future Spring by Michael Cheval.
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think,
“Do not worry. You have always written before
and you will write now. All you have to do is write
one true sentence. Write the truest sentence
that you know.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
Art by Graciela Bello.
