Words to Live By

It will be gone before you know it.

The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher.
Then suddenly they disappear.

Dorothy Evslin

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that

one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. A. Milne

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"A hole is to dig...mud is to jump in and slide in and shout doodleedoodleedoo...and hands are to hold."

Ruth Krauss: A Hole is To Dig: A book of first definitions

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Words to Live By

"An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
- On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908. G. K. Chesterton -

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

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"None of us have tomorrow. This is it. Today is all we have, and today you are alive. Today you can hold your wife's hand, and tell your children you love them. You're going to have good days, and you're going to have bad ones. Make a list, and on the good days, do those things you want to do. Live your life."

From So, This is Life March 2, 2010.

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On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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