One piece at a time

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no normal..

“This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”

— Meryl Streep

Four Forces

To do this she needed to purify her soul, and so she turned to the four forces that had always guided her: love, death, power, and time.

We must love because we are loved by God.
We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life.
We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that such power is worthless.
Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

— Paulo Coelho (The winner stands alone)

My Memory..

It is only my memory that holds me here. Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together

– Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

Time

“Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once”
— Anonymous

Make Time

“You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.”
— Charles Buxton

Never too soon

“You can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Free of Charge Treasure

“Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours.
They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge.
If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour.
What will you do with this priceless treasure?”

Twenty-Four treasures

A man should say to his soul every morning, “God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss.” — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness, Ch. 6: Concerning Self-Examination and the Recollection of God