O heaven above me, thou pure, thou deep heaven! Thou abyss of light! Gazing on thee, I tremble with divine desires.

And he waited for his misfortune the whole night; but he waited in vain. The night remained clear and calm, and happiness itself came nigher and nigher unto him. Towards morning, however, he laughed to his heart, and said mockingly: “Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.”

Thus spake Zarathustra.

Never have I had so strong a feeling that morality is a merry-go-round, a spinning top.  I knew this before, of course; but I had always imagined its phases must be centuries or aeons— now they seemed to me to be minutes or seconds.  There was a flickering before my eyes.  And inside me, my only guide in this witches’ dance, I heard again a voice whisper between its teeth: Have a care, Priest!

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Time Magazine on what to tell your children if you are laid off:

Say good things about your company so that they don’t grow up thinking that employers are monsters. Say good things about your job and how you felt about it while you were doing it. Invite them to participate in the new phase of the family life, without making them feel overburdened by a financial problem.

Peacekeeper ICBM test, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.