(header picture by L. Stokes)
ahoj & thank you for stopping by. i’m pierre mourier, a bit of a globe-trotter, econ undergrad and knowledge worker. i love traveling, reading about affairs, business, culture, design, economics, politics, philosophy, strategy & practicing mobility and simplicity.
i am grateful for the people i meet and the opportunities i am presented with. let me share with you my thoughts, travel stories, and curiosities collected along the way. thank you for your time and kind attention.
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Montjoyer, (Picture by L. Stokes)
Translation by C.D.N. Costa and emphasis by Tim Ferris
The majority of mortals, Paulinus, complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that all save a very few find life at an end just when they are getting ready to live.
Nor is it merely the common herd and the unthinking crowd that bemoan what is, as men deem it, an universal ill; the same feeling has called forth complaint also from men who were famous…
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while wealth however limited, if it is entrusted to a good guardian, increases by use, so our life is amply long for him who orders it properly. (More …)
many things to be grateful for:
Change takes however long you think it takes.
Tom Peters
more…
Time to go back to Montreal after a 20-month Euro-Asian trip.
expectations setting:
