Oct 1, 2009
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“What is your condition? You feel satisfied with what little you have secured from this world while much of the next world of which you have been deprived does not grieve you. The little of this world which you lose pains you so much so that it becomes apparent in your faces, and in the lack of your endurance over whatever is taken away from you; as though this world is your permanent abode, and as though its wealth would stay with you for good…You have decided together on leaving the next world and loving this world.”
Oct 1, 2009
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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 – 1948)
Sep 11, 2009
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I’ve learned the importance of taking the risk to pursue your dreams. There is nothing worse than looking back over your life at what you should have tried, should have done, or should have said- because no matter how much it hurts, you can’t press rewind. – Mitch Hedburg (I think)
Life doesn’t get riskier than this *phew*.
Jul 30, 2009
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From Khalil Gibran’s, the Prophet.
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 our 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.
Jul 18, 2009
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“Where your thoughts are, is where you are. Think of others and you are with them. Think only of yourself and you are alone.” – Yaatriki
