Laurence Overmire.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Laurence Overmire

And see the world through someone else’s eyes
Trip along the syllables
And taste the sweetness of the rhyme
The dripping of the consonants
Creates a music all its own
Thundering vowels and whirling images
Transcend our sleeping thoughts
The drums of the heart beat anew
And carry us far
Far
Far
To another place
And another time
And another way
Of being.

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7 Quotes about Love.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Saint-Exupery

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

To love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Miserables

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
William Shakespeare

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron

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Mitch Thrower.

The fountain of youth is movement.

Life is a shooting star, burn bright.

Only a tenacious few will evade the smudge of history’s eventual eraser.

It is a comforting moment when we suddenly realize that our commitment to race, to participate in something so important to us-our dream-will be actualized. We have made it to the starting line. In this moment, the probability that we will do the event reaches 100 percent. The hundreds of things that can go wrong leading up to an Ironman have been cleverly averted, and the thousands of things required to get to the start are all now officially history.

Our business culture is ruled by short attention spans and time-gulping demands.

Someone wasting your time is far worse than someone wasting your money.

If you want to know who’s high on your priority list, check your phone records.

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Thomas Merton.

“Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.”

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century.

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