#reminders for life

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

-Nelson Mandela

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

I shall never believe God plays dice with the world.

-A Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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