Anew!

A beginning tomorrow!

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive"
- Howard Thurman

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
- J.N. Forkel, Bach's Life (1802)

(Both quotes are from the comments section of this post which my brother sent me. Which we spoke about after he sent me this, which is an extremely interesting read. Thanks anna! Also, if you folks have the time, the lectures here are brilliant! I attended each one of them at the Centennial Hall last year :) )

A few of my favourite lines...

When the spirit rises and commands
The gods are willing to obey!
- Ella Wheeler

And this:
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight
They, while their companions slept
Were toiling upwards in the night
- Wordsworth

And this:
Live like you were to die tomorrow;
Learn like you were to live forever
- Gandhi

How some things enthuse me!!

Can we make this reality?

A dream of so long ago. A dream that we are no where close to fulfilling. The dream that must drive the new reality.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

-- Rabindranath Tagore