Suddenly, I wonder – is all hardness justified because we are so slow in realizing that life was meant to be heroic? Greatness is required of us. That is life’s aim and justification, and we poor fools have for centuries been trying to make it convenient, manageable, pliant to our will. It is also peaceful and tender and funny and dull. Yes, all that.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days
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🙂 Thanks for sharing Todd
Personally, I’m rather enjoying my “peaceful, tender, funny and dull” period…
You strike me as playing in this exactly space 85% of the time. You do.
All that..which makes it more than the sum of these parts.
Yes.
Are we all meant to be great? Is greatness different for all of us? Are we all heroic in our own way?
Thank you.
Wonderful.
Another wonderful quote from that book…thanks David. 🙂
They fall from her book like a soft summer rain. Woman was a genius. Period.
I ordered the book today… 🙂
Great!
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:26 PM, lead.learn.live. wrote:
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Which book, DK? I missed this and it looks like she has several…
Right here Lori: The Measure of My Days (Florida Scott-Maxwell). Meant to be sipped.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Measure-Days-Florida-Scott-Maxwell/dp/0140051643
Awesome, thanks pal…
let it be.
Yes.
Just all that or a lot more than that?
Just that. Period. 🙂