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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Billy Baldwin, Designer (1963) |
William Baldwin, Actor (1963) |
Jeanne Calment, Celebrity (1875) |
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician (1958) |
Tyne Daly, Actress (1946) |
Anthony Daniels, Actor (1946) |
Leo Delibes, Composer (1836) |
Jonathan Safran Foer, Writer (1977) |
David Geffen, Businessman (1943) |
Hubert De Givenchy, Designer (1927) |
Clifton Daniel, Editor (2000) |
Kurt Eisner, Politician (1919) |
Margot Fonteyn, Dancer (1991) |
Tom Glazer, Musician (2003) |
Robert Hall, Clergyman (1831) |
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist (2005) |