Wednesday's Quote of the Week: 16 Mar 2011

I know I said that I'd try and do this every week, and I know I failed at that after one week, but in my defence I've been extremely busy the past two weeks and I don't normally think of blogging on Wednesdays and Thursdays anyway. Of course, that's why I chose those days, but knowing me, it may have been a poor decision in hindsight. Irrespective, here is your quote of the week for this week:

Nature doesn't make long speeches.
A whirlwind doesn't last all morning.
A cloudburst doesn't last all day.
Who makes the wind and rain?
Heaven and earth do.
If heaven and earth don't go on and on,
certainly people don't need to.

This quote is taken from Chapter 23 of the Ursula K. Le Guin translation of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu [Dao De Jing by Laozi]. A follow-up post should come tomorrow.

Wednesday's Quote of the Week: 23 Feb 2011

I'm currently instating a weekly instalment on the blog where on Wednesdays I give a particular quote of interest, and then the next day I follow up with a brief discussion on a topic which may or may not be related in any way. These are just musings of a sort, and aren't intended to be too rigorous. Hopefully I'll be able to do it on a weekly basis, but if I fail to keep up, I apologise in advance.

This week's quote is from 1 Corinthians 13.11:

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 

For those of you who are unaware, that's the First Epistle to the Corinthians (a book of the New Testament), written by St. Paul the Apostle.

See you tomorrow!