#reminders for life
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. GK Chesterton
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
The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you
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 rel
... See moreOnly 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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
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