In Search of God!

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare think.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

“The creative instinct is … an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual… — an energy which no single life can consume.”
- Pearl S. Buck ( youngest female Nobel Laureate)


ps The only younger laureate since Buck has been Albert Camus.

 

If .....
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 – 1936) [ In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling ]

 

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
- Ernest Hemingway

 

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
- Woody Allen

 

"Voyager, there are no bridges;one builds them as one walks."

– Gloria Anzaldua

 

"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears"

-Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

 

"The wound is the place where the Light enters"

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

 

"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of the heart, and that depends upon how much one has polished it. Whoever has polished it more, sees more – more unseen forms become manifest."

-Rumi

 

"Good-luck is just another name for tenacity of purpose."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson