#reminders for life

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke

If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of these sub personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,

Only as deep as I look can I see,

Only as much as I dream can I be

-Karen Ravn

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. -- Thoreau

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. GK Chesterton

The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you

And there’s a dreadful law here - it was made by mistake but there it is - that if any one asks for machinery they have to have it and keep on using it. E Nesbit, 1910. The magic city

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

-Nelson Mandela

I shall never believe God plays dice with the world.

-A Einstein