Awesome

The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge,
or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory,
but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing:
Sacred Awe!

            Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

 

 

 

 

 

Law

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power.
Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world,
and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

                Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

 

 

 

 

 

April Fool

The fool doth think he is wise,
    but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

                William Shakespeare, As You Like It

 

 

 

 

 

The second learning

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and
compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time.

    Dave Barry, 25 Things I Have Learned In 50 Years, #2

 

Promise

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection
    not in books alone but in every leaf in spring time.

            Martin Luther, Watchwords for the Warfare of Life

 

 

 

Poem: The Point

The days, the days they break to fade.
What fills them I’ll forget.
Every touch and smell and taste.
This sun, about to set

can never last. It breaks my heart.
Each joy feels like a threat:
Although there’s beauty everywhere,
its shadow is regret.

Still, something in the coming dusk
whispers not to fret.
Don’t matter that we’ll lose today.
It’s not tomorrow yet.

        Kate Tempest 

Carpe diem

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London, Jack London’s Tales of Adventure