#tim

If I Still Wrote The footsteps have faded into the crowd and throngs, The voices faint, I don’t hear them anymore. But… If I still wrote love, on the pangs of waiting… You’d speak again. Sleep, wakefulness, silence – no matter – will be deafeningly alive, Of a hand held, of songs raw to this heart. That was then. I am here – not where the weak in all of us relent… To substitutes and void filling. To settling and tolerating. Here, where alone and sad, have ceased to mean the same. Where fields of bloom are ablaze – with now. Holding my breath no more, for gains and dreams of tomorrow. Here, where life is as it is and should be. If I still wrote love songs – they would be about comfort. About reveling in the majestic moment of Being Who I need to be, and who I’m born to be. If I still wrote… ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#dreams

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#admirable #from time to time #knowing #nothing #remember

Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#education

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#bad #cold #daily #did #discovered

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people. ↗

— Mizuki Nomura

#passage-of-time #equality

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society. ↗

— Adam J. Banks

#composition #digital #dj #griot #multimedia

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#compassion #cruel #cruelity #days-of-the-week #food-for-thought

The time is now 3:34. Damn! I’m late for 3:33. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#change

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#change

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #personal-responsibility #potential #power