What Would You Do In Heaven?

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi

Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.- Rabbi Julius Gordon

That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. – Agnes Repplier

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. – Karen Sunde

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.- Peter Ustinov

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.- Jeanne Moreau

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. – W. Somerset Maugham

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.- Rainer Maria Rilke

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.- Victor Hugo

How many times do I love, again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain
Unravelled from the trembling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star:—
So many times do I love again.
-Thos. Lovell Beddoes

There is no remedy for love but to love more.-Henry David Thoreau

Love often knows no measure,
but burns beyond all measure.
Love feels no burden, values no labours,
would like to do more than it can do,
without excusing itself with impossibility,
because it believes that it may and can do all things.
-Thomas Kempis

They do not love that do not show their love.- Heywood

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
-C.S. LEWIS

“Love is trembling happiness.” - KAHLIL GIBRAN

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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
-J.K. Rowling (Commencement Address, Harvard Alumni Association)

You can read the entire speech with video HERE (CLICK HERE).

You can also watch the video below:

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

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Since I left my day job, I felt less and less sleepy, like I didn’t need so much sleep anymore. Sleep used to be an escape, and it came as a very welcome friend. But now that I didn’t have something to escape from, I found it hard to fall asleep.

I felt like I wanted to do so many things, and I wanted to do them NOW! Suddenly, the word TOMORROW became rather distant and unfamiliar. I don’t have company-set deadlines anymore. I don’t need to wait for weekends anymore just so that I could have a break.

I don’t know if this is a sense of TIME being suspended, but everything has suddenly fallen into the PRESENT moment. What would I like to do NOW? This is the question that often came to mind.

Rare is it that the answer to that question would be that I wanted to fall asleep. Out of so many things that could be done, why fall asleep?

Maybe it just takes a certain amount of discipline, or maybe the excitement of my new-found freedom has yet to subside. Whatever it may be, I know I have got to adapt to these awesome changes that’s been happening in my life

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Much as we desire to be noble and to claim an

undying love for all mankind, maybe what the

world needs now is just one person, fully devoting

oneself to another, making real the manifestation

of God’s immeasurable love for each and every

person He called His own.

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I have looked forward to this moment, and I shall
not let it pass ’til I have savored it with all my
heart, with all my mind, with all my very soul!
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Have you seen a seed?

Was it at all that attractive to you?

Wait awhile and see that seed grow.

See it bear fruit,

see its flowers bloom.
See?

I’ve caught you by surprise!

I have just
astounded you.

-itakeoffthemask.com

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