Now and Then It's Good to Pause Our Pursuits

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I need to remind myself to pause and reflect more, which is why I dig quotes like this. “Stop and smell the roses,” as they say.

About the author

Guillaume Apollinaire (French: [ɡijom apɔlinɛʁ]; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) (born as Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary de Wąż-Kostrowicki) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent. The term Surrealism was first used by Apollinaire concerning the ballet Parade in 1917. He described Parade as “a kind of surrealism” (une sorte de surréalisme) when he wrote the program note the following week, thus coining the word three years before Surrealism emerged as an art movement in Paris.