Alive, Alive, Oh!

“Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for.”

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.”

“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.”

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

“‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.
‘So do I,” said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“It would have been nice to have had unicorns.”

“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”

“As we live and as we are, Simplicity — with a capital “S” — is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.”