Lars Toomre

Some Personal Thoughts and Trivia
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Cannot Measure Time By Days

Blonde model Petra Nemcova with raised arms

You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires (1899 - 1986)

Found The Simplest And Most Lasting Joys

Brunette Macedonian model Katarina Ivanovska in a HM blue pattern bikini

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.

French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 (1913 - 1960)

Love Is How You Stay Alive

Brunette Colombian model Melissa Giraldo in a Phax Faiga Bandeau bikini

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Live The Life That You Truly Want To Live

Brunette super model Alessandra Ambrosio poses in a blue pattern bikini

Recognize that to be happy, you must live the life that you truly want to live. It's your life and you are the only one who can truly determine what is right for you.

Successful People Make Their Circumstances

Brunette Playboy model Gianna Mazzon strutting in  black bikini with leg raised

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics

Offense and Genius

Blonde model Farabe Cottingham in a blue and white bikini

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Canadian novelist, critic and journalist (1913 - 1995)

Creativity Like Human Life Begins In Darkness

Brunette actress Mila Kunis in grey dress starred in film "Friends With Benefits"

Creativitylike human life itself — begins in darkness.

Author of wonderful book The Artist's Way

Inconsistencies of Real Love

Brunette Betty Thompson in bikini was Miss America Oklahoma 2011

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

From her work The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Look Back On This Moment

Brunette Argentinian fashion model Yesica Toscanini in a black dress

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

British economist and journalist (born 1962)

Definition of Free

Blonde model Danielle Knudson in hot pink cover outfit

Definition of word Free: not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being.

As Defined by Merriam Webster's Dictionary

Human Brain Is Unique

Brunette beauty Karla Carrillo was Miss Mexico at Miss Universe 2009

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.

The Artist's Way Every Day - May 23rd

Blonde Nikki Schieler Ziering was Playmate of the Month for September 1997

Morning Pages remind me that while I cannot choose much of what happens to me in my life, I can choose how I respond to what happens. The trick is getting small enough to inch forward. The past is huge. The future may be huge as well. What remains for me, what is given, is to do the small tasks of the day. First among those taks is Morning Pages, the daily writing of three pages that draws me into the life I have now, the choices I can make today to find beauty in what is given to me.

Daily Reflection: Something To Quit To Be Happy

A lantern on a white wall in Malaga, Spain by the ocean and a setting sun

What is something you must quit to be happy?

Sunlight Is The Best Of Disinfectants

Blonde American model Jessa Hinton was Playmate of the Month for July 2011

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Be Faithful To Yourself

Blonde model Alessandra Zinagno poses on beach in early morning light

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.

French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 (1869 - 1951)

Love Of Truth

Kyra Santoro Bikini Black

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

British philosopher, mathematician, historian and social critic (1872 - 1970)

You Only Live Once

Blonde Estonian model Carmen Kass poses in a pink dress

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

American film actress (1892-1980)

Life Spent Making Mistakes

ESPN sideline reporter Heidi Watney reporting in a blue top

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics (1856 - 1950)

Exception Proves The Rule

British-American actress Catherine Bell in profile in royal blue dress

The exception which proves the rule.

Picture A World Without War

Blonde model Ana Hickmann photographed in a colorful pink swimsuit

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

American humorist (born 1949)