북극성 The North Star

북극성 The North Star

 

"A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life." - Proverbs 13:7

 

"The mark of a good leader is loyal followers; leadership is nothing without a following." - Proverbs 14:28

 

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein

 

"Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it." - Marcus Aurelius

 

"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker.
That which does not kill me, mackes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideal will serve us hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's meaning; for what was great in morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. I have given psychological treatment to too many people of advancing years, and have looked too often into the secret chambers of their souls, not to be moved by this fundamental truth."
                                                                                                               - C. G. Jung from The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche

 

"하고 싶은 말을 다했으면, 끝내라. 조금씩, 날마다, 꾸준히 - 이것이 글쓰기 세 가지 원칙이다. 인간은 실제로 작업을 하는 동안이 아니라, 계획하고 기다리는 동안 가장 많은 일을 한다. - 안정효"

 

"인생에서 가장 슬픈 세 가지: 할 수 있었는데, 해야 했는데, 해야만 했었는데" - 루이스 E. 분

 

"추사 김정희가 친구 권돈인에게 말했다. "나는 70 평생에 벼루 10개를 밑창 냈고 붓 1천 자루를 몽당붓으로 만들었다. 또 모름지기 팔뚝 아래 309개의 비문을 완전히 익혀서 간직하고 있다." 추사는 법도를 떠나지 않으면서 또한 법도에 구속받지 않는 서예가였다."

                                                                                                                                              - 김영조, 얼레빗으로 빗는 하루 4022 (02/25/2019)