![IMAGE: The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. [We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.] It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/technology-4816658_640-200x129.jpg)
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. [We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.] It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. – Dennis Gabor [Gábor Dénes] (1900… More »
![IMAGE: For every ailment under the sun, [For every evil under the sun,] / There is a remedy, or there is none. // If there be one, try to find it; / If there be none, never mind it. //](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/sun-3588618_640-200x133.jpg)
For every ailment under the sun, [For every evil under the sun,] / There is a remedy, or there is none. // If there be one, try to find it; / If there be none, never mind it. // -… More »
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.… More »
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 93) / (For attractive lips…) (Image… More »
![IMAGE: The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/book-2127252_640-200x133.jpg)
The first and best [greatest] victory is to conquer self [yourself]; to be conquered by self [yourself] is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato(n) (427 – 347B.C.) / (I count him braver…) (Image by moritz320 from Pixabay)… More »
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good… More »
Charlie Brown: “A friendship like ours is worth all the money in the world..” / Snoopy: “(On the other hand, if we had a little money, wo could buy some more cookies…)” // – Charles M. Schulz (1922 – 2000):… More »
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. – Touchstone — William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): As You Like It, Act V, Scene I (Image by jhenning from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by… More »
The flowers withered, / Their color faded away, / While meaninglessly / I spent my days in the world / And the long rains were falling. // – Ono no Komachi (c.825 – c.900); trans. by Donald Keene [ドナルド・キーン] (1922… More »
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already,… More »
A red sun hath water…
常に心せよ、流れに…
シーザーの妻は疑惑を…
Don't just dream…
I'm a slow walker…
![IMAGE: I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living. [There is no real difference between work and play - it's all living.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/life-2418344_640-100x64.jpg)
![IMAGE: Too much is as bad as too little. / Too much spoils, too little is nothing. [Too much spoils, too little does not satisfy.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/matchstick_fire_drop-of-water_water-drop_640-100x75.jpg)