The difference between mad men and ordinary men is common sense so the difference between ordinary men and outstanding men cannot be common sense. If anybody asks you to use your common sense they are simply saying you are already operating below the minimum level required of a normal human being to think. So they [...]
Elevation is what I see as the purpose
of friendship not limitation. Erosion
does not only take place on earth,
but in people’s lives. Friends have
denied them of their nutrients
(i.e their greatness)
-Fola Daniel Adelesi
Apparently some people have had cause to appreciate the people they associate with. They always have their friends in mind and they don’t want to [...]
Winners didn’t win
while sitting on
the spectators’ bench.
-Fola Daniel Adelesi
I
am sure you know that at first the balloon is flat. You could have it in your pocket or in the middle of your book and nobody has an idea of what you are keeping in your book. Sometimes you could hold it in your hands without [...]
Those who truly lived are those
who have something to leave behind
-Fola Daniel Adelesi
T
he man had a son who after his death wrote about his father, ‘he is a true father.’ Who is this man? It’s Douglas McArthur. This was a man who said he wants to be remembered by his son, not for the many [...]
The oldest of all men is not the one
who lived for so many years, but the
one whose influence remains in
people’s mind many years after his
death.
-Fola Daniel Adelesi
Celebration of birthdays over the years has occupied some people’s mind because they feel it is necessary since they are still alive or they are doing it because every [...]
I decided at some point to put some confessions that I had written on my walls and on the doors leading to my room. In the same month that I decided to stick the confessions on the wall one of the several things that I said materialized. The moment it materialized it gave me more [...]
You have a head
Never to be used
As you like it.
You have a mind
Not to be fed
As you like it.
You have ears
Not to hear all
As you like it.
You’re blessed with eyes
Not for all sights
As you like it
Your nose is given
Not to sniff all
As you like it
Lips to talk
Not without caution
As you like it.
Mouth to eat
Not from [...]
Refrain your hope
From men in your offer
Who themselves are
Hopelessness personified
Squander not opportunities
On a man who seeks none
For both would have
Been offered food
But delayed eating
Thinking you should,
Be kind enough,
Put food in their mouth
Not their table.
Fola Daniel Adelesi
06/09/2006.
Two fellows do good
To human beings.
One knowing he does good,
One thinking he does evil.
Our experience of joy
Makes life worth living
To this we owe,
Essentially, great thanks
To the good-doer.
Trials and failures
Packaged for us
Presented by adversaries
Contribute to our victory
To which, essentially,
We owe immeasurable thanks
To the evil doer.
Sailors of reputation
Ate the calm and storm
Excellent pilots
Ate lightening and storm
Man must [...]
Getting my business certificate lingered on for a while and at a point I had to forcefully drive myself to get it done. I eventually got a business certificate seven years after I had started Edible Pen. When it all started I did not know there was anything like a business registration but by the [...]