It's good in love and in finances

Tom:  I love you

Shiv:  I love you, too.

Tom:  Well, it's good to know that we don't have an unbalanced love portfolio.

~ Succession

Music and Dancing

There is nothing more notable in Socrates

than that he found time, while he was an old man,

to learn music and dancing, 

and thought it was time well spent.

~ Fritz Gilbert, the Retirement Manifesto

Wondering, indeed...

Shiv:  What are you saying?

Tom: I wonder if the sad I'd be with you is less than the sad I'd be without you.

~ Succession, Season 2, Episode 10

If I had a nickel...

Aegon (to his mother):  "Do you love me?"

Queen Alicent:  "...  ...  ...You imbecile..."

~ House of the Dragon 

My mantra for the next year...

I choose to be content. 

I realize that contentment is a choice. 

I am consciously choosing contentment in each moment.

Simple, but profound. And I struggle with this every day

 Daily happiness > Future Happiness

Pretty good crystal ball...

The North can make a steam-engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. 

You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared…

At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, and shut out from the markets of Europe by blockade as you will be, your cause will begin to wane.

~ General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1860

But look what it got her...

Only do what your heart tells you.

~ Princess Diana

Or with regard to today's economic forecast...

In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing.

There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.

Find the light. And the shadow will not find you.  

~ Bronwyn, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Rings of Power, to her son before a big battle

And again

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

~ e.e. cummings

What he said...

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. 

~ e.e. cummings

Now, where's my spoon?

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."

Said the old man, "I do that too."

The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."

I do that too," laughed the little old man.

Said the little boy, "I often cry."

The old man nodded, "So do I."

But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."

And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.

I know what you mean," said the little old man.

~ Shel Silverstein