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The Generator of A Good Life
Every fighter, to become a great fighter, must take at least one good licking. If he can do that and learn at the same time, he’ll be pretty, pretty good.
- Jack Blackburn
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A poem is not necessarily a verse, with rhyme.
A poem is an attempt to open our eyes so we can see what we refuse to look at.
— Jean Cocteau
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
— Henri Bergson
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
— Carson McCullers
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It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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I agree that love and laughter are essential for a good life but it also seems important to have defeats, to fall down or be knocked down and learn how to get back up. A lot of our failures come from failure to locate our truest, most basic self. Any situation that puts us in contact with it changes us for the better, but it’s a test we can fail to understand or pass.
