#reminders for life

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

Look to this day

For yesterday is but a dream,

And tomorrow is only a vision

But today well-lived

Makes every yesterday

A dream of happiness

And every tomorrow

A vision of hope

• Sanskrit

I shall never believe God plays dice with the world.

-A Einstein

Grownups love figures. When you tell them you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does

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

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

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 cold December gave you birth,

The month of snow and ice and mirth,

Place on your hand a turquoise blue

Success will bless whate’er you do