Daily Writing, 70
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Tomb of Flavia Iulia Helena Augusta, Empress of the first Christian Empire.
Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.
“Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.”
Hope is being able to see that there is light, despite all of the darkness.
— Desmond Mpilo Tutu
P.S.
On a break, be back next week.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet, experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravll’d world whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
— Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses, 18–21.
A bell is no bell til you ring it
A song is no song til you sing it
And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love til you give it away.
— Maria, in the Sound of Music
Along St. Peter’s Square
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
The statue of Charity, in the portico of St. Peters
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
— Anne Frank