“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren
“Before Aznavour, despair was unpopular.”
– Jean Cocteau
Art by Andrea Stajan-Ferkul.
“your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.”
– Charles Bukowski, The Laughing Heart
Art by Thomas Cooper Gotch.
“True beauty results from that repose which the mind feels when the eye, the intellect, and the affections, are satisfied from the absence of any want.”
– Owen Jones, Grammar of Ornament (1856)
“I mark’d a throne
Of half the world as all my own…”
– Edgar Allan Poe, from “Tamerlane”,1827
Art by Eva Kosmos.
“Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don’t really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.”
– Humphrey Bogart
Art by Frederick Judd Waugh.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
Art by Victor Prouvé.
“Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.”
― Luis Marques
Art by Charles Vess – illustration for Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
Businesses must be built like cities, as places for pleasure, trade, wealth and work.
A successful business epitomizes the work that shines like gold. The work that breathes the perpetual air of jazziest Spring.
Innovation and hard work
Your deeds and hard work are evidence of your small empire erected on a foundation of stardusted ideas protected by the wing of spring. Rains might soak your efforts and bring in the smell of dust, but you must toil and think creatively until the sun comes down again.
Whoever comes for pleasure should see the hard work behind every shiny slate in the pavement.
Leave trails of hard work to lead your customers to your city of trade, wealth and treasures. Be a lucky snail that leaves a gold trail of slog.
Trade means to develop friendliness and communication. The city of business is not a place for arguments but for agreements and networking. And for instructive courses, information, physical and spiritual wealth and language. The language that creates truthful connections between the people who are willing to build something wonderful together, a business, a new product, a story that stealthily steals your time while giving away pleasure.
Extraordinary evidence
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” – Carl Sagan
Show hard evidence of your timeless toil everywhere, on your site, blog and social media pages. On your white papers, newsletters, emails, your sketches of new projects.
“The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” ― John D. Rockefeller
Let us draw an idea with some words! As we cannot paint like this:
© Iulia Halatz
Art by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
I am delighted that five of my poems were included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. – Neil Gaiman
Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
