Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. – Stanislaw Lec
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. – Stanislaw Lec
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. – Stanislaw Lec
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. – Stanislaw Lec
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawfords wire hangers look like pool noodles. – Sloane Crosley