Majicman Notes

Life’s a game of inches, and so’s football.  In either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small: I mean, a half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make… Read more

A magic moment I remember: I raised my eyes and you were there,A fleeting vision, the quintessenceOf all that’s beautiful and rareI pray to mute despair and anguish,To vain pursuits the world esteems,Long did I… Read more

Remember then: there is only one time that is important– Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. Leo Tolstoy, What men live by and… Read more

In 1918, Brit­ish land­scape artist Paul Nash painted “We Are Mak­ing a New World”, a work that is housed at the Imper­ial War Museum in Lon­don. It was based on an ink draw­ing, “Sun­rise, Inverness… Read more

شاخه ها پژمرده است سنگ ها افسرده است رود می نالد جغد می خواند غم بیاویخته با رنگ غروب می تراود ز لبم قصه سرد: دلم افسرده در این تنگ غروب. سهراب سپهری Branches, wilted.… Read more

Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Read more

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. Voltaire Read more

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw Read more

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.  Saint Augustine Read more

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance Read more