Ah! I just found out that the book Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, that I bought the other day on Amazon is available for free in pdf e-book format from MySelfDevelopment.net.
Oh well, let me synthesize happiness. A hard copy is probably better to have than an e-book anyways

Quote of the Night

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

I’ve been following a comic from a South African illustrator and animator, Mike Scott, for a while now. His comic Bru and Boegie is really quite brilliant.
Anyways, the other night I got to chat with Mike at the recent Cape Town 27 Dinner and offered to hook his website up with RSS, so now, drum roll please….., Bru and Boegie, the kiffest comic in the world, is available in RSS. Neato

Also, in keeping the spirit of the occasion todays quote of the night will be something humorous. Here it is, two for one special, ’cause they’re just so damn good.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- A. Whitney Brown

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
- Douglas Adams

I can’t help but be struck by the truthfulness of this quote.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

I’m cutting this one close. I’ve just come back from the Cape Town 27 Dinner. This is a morph from the geek dinner concept, but check out the link and if you’re in the Cape Town or Johannesburg area, log your name in the wiki and join us. It’s an awesome event, where you get to meet and chat with some great people around dinner.
It’s nearly midnight for me, so I wanted to get the quote of the night out before it’s too late, otherwise it’ll be a quote of tomorrow morning.
So, here it is. It’s a bit overused quote, but oh so true and very important.

Imagination is more important than knowledge…
- Albert Einstein

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

Wow, this is a great one.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
- Ray Bradbury

I’ve always loved quotes, and over about the past 2 years have been collecting those quotes that I’ve come across that just “clicked” with me. You know, those quotes you read, and you don’t need to have had personal experience with it to just know it’s true.

I try, mostly unsuccessfully, to read a quote every night and just think, or meditate, about it before going to sleep at night. Try to internalize it.
The reason I don’t do it in the morning to get me started on my day, is that as soon as I start my day, I’m distracted immediately by my work, and whatever I’ve read is completely out my mind. I’m a guy, I can’t think of more than one thing at a time

So, what I want to do is commit myself to posting a “quote of the night” every evening (South African time), so that, a) in case anyone is interested they can subscribe to the quote of the night I myself will be pondering on and b) so that I don’t forget for myself to keep up with it.

So… without further ado, the first quote of the night is.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Hmm…