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“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
― Germany Kent

“The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.”
― Germany Kent

“My son, you are just an infant now, but on that day when the world disrobes of its alluring cloak, it is then that I pray this letter is in your hands.

Listen closely, my dear child, for I am more than that old man in the dusty portrait beside your bed. I was once a little boy in my mother’s arms and a babbling toddler on my father's lap.

I played till the sun would set and climbed trees with ease and skill. Then I grew into a fine young man with shoulders broad and strong. My bones were firm and my limbs were straight; my hair was blacker than a raven's beak. I had a spring in my step and a lion's roar. I travelled the world, found love and married. Then off to war I bled in battle and danced with death.

But today, vigor and grace have forsaken me and left me crippled.

Listen closely, then, as I have lived not only all the years you have existed, but another forty more of my own.

My son, We take this world for a permanent place; we assume our gains and triumphs will always be; that all that is dear to us will last forever.

But my child, time is a patient hunter and a treacherous thief: it robs us of our loved ones and snatches up our glory. It crumbles mountains and turns stone to sand. So who are we to impede its path?

No, everything and everyone we love will vanish, one day.

So take time to appreciate the wee hours and seconds you have in this world. Your life is nothing but a sum of days so why take any day for granted? Don't despise evil people, they are here for a reason, too, for just as the gift salt offers to food, so do the worst of men allow us to savor the sweet, hidden flavor of true friendship.

Dear boy, treat your elders with respect and shower them with gratitude; they are the keepers of hidden treasures and bridges to our past. Give meaning to your every goodbye and hold on to that parting embrace just a moment longer--you never know if it will be your last.

Beware the temptation of riches and fame for both will abandon you faster than our own shadow deserts us at the approach of the setting sun. Cultivate seeds of knowledge in your soul and reap the harvest of good character.

Above all, know why you have been placed on this floating blue sphere, swimming through space, for there is nothing more worthy of regret than a life lived void of this knowing.

My son, dark days are upon you. This world will not leave you with tears unshed. It will squeeze you in its talons and lift you high, then drop you to plummet and shatter to bits . But when you lay there in pieces scattered and broken, gather yourself together and be whole once more. That is the secret of those who know.

So let not my graying hairs and wrinkled skin deceive you that I do not understand this modern world. My life was filled with a thousand sacrifices that only I will ever know and a hundred gulps of poison I drank to be the father I wanted you to have.

But, alas, such is the nature of this life that we will never truly know the struggles of our parents--not until that time arrives when a little hand--resembling our own--gently clutches our finger from its crib.

My dear child, I fear that day when you will call hopelessly upon my lifeless corpse and no response shall come from me. I will be of no use to you then but I hope these words I leave behind will echo in your ears that day when I am no more. This life is but a blink in the eye of time, so cherish each moment dearly, my son.”
― Shakieb Orgunwall

“Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.”
― Germany Kent

“It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.”
― Germany Kent

“Our greed for joy is the sole reason for our sorrows”
― Nilesh Rathod, Destiny of Shattered Dreams

“If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.”
― Germany Kent

“It is never easy to endure pain nor uncomfortable situation. It is seems easy to quit to avoid the pain.If you quit you will suffer later. It is far better to endure the pain now and enjoy later. Life is all about endurance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other." ”
― Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

“Go read a book, other than your own.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Failure is only practice that prepares you for the real life experiences.”
― Angela Khristin Brown, Love

“For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was and there was only ever the butterfly.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“When people are kind, rational, generous and loving..
Be grateful, appreciate it and make the most of it at that time..
Because it is not necessarily the normal/real way of things at all..
Reason, generosity, kindness & love are rare resources in this world..”
― Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

“God smiles to calm me and it works. He says, 'They don't realize what they're losing when they bring suffering upon themselves in the name of God. Great art must always have balance. I did not create humanity to suffer. However, suffering is unavoidable. It's a component of life. To bring additional suffering upon oneself is a waste of human potential.”
― Penelope Przekop, Dust

“There is a oneness that runs in your veins, as also a dumbness. If you're somehow able to grasp this unity of all that is, and live your life accordingly, well then, in time you will become a sage. Otherwise you will live and die a dumbass, no matter what your age.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas