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They would all sing

Every night at the pub or at home when they got loosened up, they would all sing. Loosened up is Scottish for shitfaced, by the way. Jimmy Barnes (re Glaswegian's love of singing, in Working Class Boy )
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We shall not cease from exploration (T S Elliot)

Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Elliot

The obstacle is the way

Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must. What blocked the path now is the path. What once impeded action advances action. the obstacle is the way. (Ryan Holiday)

The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them (Cleanthes)

  Photo by Peter Aroner on Unsplash

We are like a dog leashed to a moving cart.

Photo by Anthony Fomin on Unsplash We are like a dog leashed to a moving cart. The direction of the cart will determine where we go. Depending on the length of the leash, we also have a fair amount of room to explore and determine the pace, but ultimately what each of us must choose is whether we will go willingly or be painfully dragged. Which will it be? Cheerful acceptance? Or ignorant refusal? In the end, they amount to the same. Ryan Holiday ( The Daily Stoic )

All you need to know

Photo by Harshal S. Hirve on Unsplash The cucumber is bitter? Throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know. (Marcus Aurelius)

A faint odour of resurrection

Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash January, as always, brought its one day when people said that it felt like spring. The sky was a patched and ragged blue, and the marsh, with its thousand weeds and grasses, breathed a faint odour of resurrection. Penelope Fitzgerald (in The Bookshop )