Carpe Diem! the happiest man, and biggest temptation...

1/31/1797 – birthday of composer Franz Schubert, who died at 31, producing nine symphonies and more than 600 songs, string quartets and piano works, including Ave Maria.

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend is his wife.” – Franz Schubert

1/31/1915 – birthday of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and author.

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little….” “We are so obsessed with doing that we have no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.” – Thomas Merton

“1/31/1979 – Birthday of Daniel Paul Tammet, who holds the European record for reciting the value of pi from memory: it took him five hours and nine minutes to recite the 22,511 digits which follow 3.14…….)