Alive, Alive, Oh!

“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.”

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“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.’”

“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time.”

“Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.”

“The life of man is a bubble.”

“The gliding hour flies on fitful wings.”

“We are travelling each towards his sunset.”

“On this moment hangs eternity.”