Showing posts with label Daniel Boone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Boone. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2026

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Monday, September 04, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Wisdom comes by facing the wind; fools let it carry them." - Daniel Boone

"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure, but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity." - Epicurus

"Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation." - Eckhart Tolle 

"The mind is there to solve problems, not to create them." - Naval Ravikant

Monday, September 12, 2022

Life Lessons from Daniel Boone

Some nuggets of wisdom from Robert Morgan's book Boone: A Biography:

"Boone knew that the secret of hunting, as in many other pursuits, was not just in marksmanship, but in attention, preparation, watching and listening, before one made a move."

Luck favors the prepared mind. Couldn't help but think this is excellent advice for poker players.

"In his midthirties a man either reaches out toward risk and glory or stays within the routines of the expected and ordinary. It is an age when men leave safe homes and jobs and go on voyages, odysseys, perform transforming sacrifices. It is an age when Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass and Columbus started to plan his voyage to the Indies. It is the age which visionaries become prophets or explorers or inventors, or make fools of themselves trying."

Very true but people find their ways at all ages - as long as they decide to reach out towards the risk and not try to remain in safe harbor.

"Two years may be the time to takes to leave behind one's old self and see the the world in a larger, clearer way. It would be the time Thoreau spent in his cabin at Walden, the definitive period of his life. It was the time Goethe spent in Italy in 1786-88, in a visit that transformed his vision of himself and his future."

Two-years was the time Daniel Boone spent in Kentucky by himself and that time in the wilderness helped make him a legend.

Sunday, August 14, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"To complain is always nonacceptance of what is... When you complain, you make yourself a victim." - Eckhart Tolle

"I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead." - Daniel Boone

"The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason." - Seneca

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche 

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Wisdom comes by facing the wind; fools let it carry them." - Daniel Boone

 "If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining." - Marcus Aurelius

"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure, but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity." - Epicurus

"Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation." - Eckhart Tolle