B. Priestley
B. Priestley
grace gadgets
We cannot get grace from gadgets.
life motivational good-morning
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
forgive-and-forget forgiving remember
To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.
birthday perfect age
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
real facts fiction
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
happiness children delight
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
blessing joy count-your-blessings
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
communication mean talking
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
bacon coffee deeds empire hope radio simply smell suffer time title trip wake
We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
book writing years
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.