MAKING AN EFFORT
Our so-called limitations, I believe,
apply to faculties we don't apply.
We don't discover what we can't achieve
until we make an effort not to try.
Stichwörter: inspirational piet-hein
TIMING TOAST
Grook on how to char for yourself
There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.
THE FINAL TOUCH
Portrait of nobody in particular
Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.
Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
Stichwörter: existence poetry philosophy infinite
We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas, I know
it would have killed me long ago.
Stichwörter: foresight
It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.
Stichwörter: late trains on-time tardiness
Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.
Nobody can be lucky all the time,
so when your luck deserts you in some fashion
don't think you've been abandoned in your prime,
but rather that you're saving up your ration.
Stichwörter: luck
It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself!
Piet HeinHvis man regner med belønning for sin godhed, er det ikke godhed, men beregning.
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