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“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”

―Mother Teresa

"Treat the earth well:
it is not given to you by your parents,
it is loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children."

Ancient First Nations Proverb

Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised. Odin's Runes were the first form of the work of a Hero; Books written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form!

In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past,
when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined,--they are precious, great: but what do they become? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined fragments, dumb mournful wrecks and blocks: but the Books of Greece! There Greece, to every thinker, still very literally lives: can be called up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.
They are the chosen possession of men.






from Thomas Carlyle's book On Heroes, in the chapter on "The Hero As Man of Letters" written in 1840

- The Silent generation, people born before 1946.
- The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959.
- Generation X, people born between 1960 and 1979.
- Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 2009.

 

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,
though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
Romans 5:7

The love of God needs no because.
He does not give his love because of something that you’ve done.
He does not give his love because of something he will gain.
He does not give his love because it’s something you have earned.

He gives his love with no because.

We come at love with conditions: you can take it or leave it.

God comes at love with no conditions: I’ll take you and I won’t leave you.

We might, in rare instances, show love by dying for someone we deem worthy.
God, in all instances, showed love by dying for us,
even when we were still drawing blood from his love.
Romans 5:7–8

When we were still in rebellion against God’s love, Jesus said,
“I lay down my life . . . . No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.”
John 10:17–18

I lay it down, Jesus says, with no need for because.

“I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.”
John 13:15

Instead of counting candles,
Or tallying the years,
Contemplate your blessings,
As your birthday nears.

Consider special people
Who love you, and who care,
And others who’ve enriched your life
Just by being there.

Think about the memories
Passing years can never mar,
Experiences great and small
That have made you who you are.

Another year is a happy gift,
So cut your cake, and say,
"Instead of counting birthdays,
I count blessings every day!"

        

















         I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
        who is sending a love letter to the world. 

Be Patient towards All that is Unsolved in Your Heart;

Try to Love the Questions Themselves,

and Gradually You will Live into the Answers

-  Rainer Maria Rilke

We need to find God,
and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun,
how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa