B. Priestley
B. Priestley
forgive-and-forget forgiving remember
To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.
birthday perfect age
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
real facts fiction
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
happiness children delight
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
blessing joy count-your-blessings
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
communication mean talking
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
excesses
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
advice
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
bacon coffee deeds empire hope radio simply smell suffer time title trip wake
We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
began came defeat glory hell holiday learn war
Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.