Nyxks Musings

I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
– Agatha Christie

I never had a policy. I just tried to do my best each and every day.
– Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Tou no wa ichiji no haji.
Towanu ha matsudai no haji.
[To ask and bear a moment’s shame is better than
not to ask and bear an eternity of ignorance (shame).]
– Japanese proverb

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
– Beverly Sills (1929-____)

It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
– George Burns (1896-1996)