Anatole Broyard, the former editor of the New York Times Book Review, wrote after his doctor diagnosed him with prostate cancer, " When you learn that your life is threatened, you can turn toward this knowledge or away from it. It turned toward it...it sounds trite, yet I can only say that I realized for the first time that I don't have forever...nothing was casual anymore. I understood that living itself has a deadline. How can you not be curious about the world? The streets, the houses, the trees, the shops, the movement and the stillness...When my wife made me me a hamburger the other day, I thought it was the most fabulous hamburger in the history of the world."
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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