Isaac Newton once said that what we know is a drop but what we don't know is an ocean. He's right of course but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try in our own small way to fill that ocean.
That - in part - is what I try to do with trying to absorb some of the lessons from the quotes I examine and try to take to heart each day. And also with my thoughts on what's going on in the world and what they may mean. Not to mention the reading I try to do each day.
In the movie The Shootist John Wayne buys a newspaper the day he learns he has terminal cancer and is intent of reading that paper cover to cover so he knows what happened on that particular day. I don't have terminal cancer (thank God) but death does come for all of us - memento mori. Shouldn't we use the time allotted to us in our short span and try to fill the ocean of what we don't know but at the same time enjoy the fact we are alive and appreciate the present moment?
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