Patience

Posted on March 18, 2025March 6, 2025 by Simon

“Have patience, all things are difficult before they become easy.” Saadi Persian Poet Another painting that I took a photo of in the New Mexico Capital Museum. Immigration policy is an exa... Read More

Motivation

Posted on February 20, 2025February 2, 2025 by Simon

“Motivation is a learned skill, not an innate quality.” The photo is of the new bridge across the Colorado River just below Hoover Dam. It is framed by the top of the dam. Read more about ... Read More

Can This Be True?

Posted on February 5, 2025January 31, 2025 by Simon

“The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.” Three sentences that seem contradictory but are not. All three can be true. I tend to focus on the first. Many people ... Read More

Good News

Posted on November 29, 2024November 17, 2024 by Simon

“Despite the headlines, we live in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in human history.” Matt Ridley author of The Rational Optimist And another plug for the weekly email fro... Read More

Purpose

Posted on September 24, 2024September 23, 2024 by Simon

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Attributed to Ralph Waldo Em... Read More

Your Past

Posted on August 28, 2024August 14, 2024 by Simon

“You are not only your past.” From: Have a Little FaithBy Mitch Albom... Read More

Beyond

Posted on July 17, 2024July 16, 2024 by Simon

Beyond this placeOf time and spaceThere is a field.I’ll meet you there. Rumi... Read More

Risk

Posted on May 6, 2024May 3, 2024 by Simon

There is risk in everything we try, demanding certainty is another way of stalling. This quote reminds me of a Richard Feynman quote from last year’s trip. This Asian looking cabinet was at the Imag... Read More

Action

Posted on February 7, 2024January 8, 2024 by Simon

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St Francis of Assisi At a famous breakfast place in Healdsburg CA they have an equally... Read More

How to Live

Posted on November 17, 2023November 12, 2023 by Simon

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Nietzsche Photo is a sunrise on Piestewa Peak looking east to Camelback Mountain,... Read More

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Simon Burrow

Quirky thoughts from an old man.

Category: Motivation