Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth;

and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,

and walk in the ways of thine heart,

and in the sight of thine eyes:

but know thou,

that for all these things

God will bring thee into judgment.

 

Ecclesiastes 11:9

"I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy;

we fought ourselves.

And the enemy was in us.

 

The war is over for me now,

but it will always be there, the rest of my days

as I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes

for what Rhah called possession of my soul.

 

There are times since,

I've felt like the child born of those two fathers.

But, be that as it may, those of us who did make it

have an obligation to build again,

to teach to others what we know,

and to try with what's left of our lives

to find a goodness and a meaning to this life"

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

 

The definition of health by the WHO (something that many decision-makers should read right now and always keep in mind).

"I tell you friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear.

 

But at the same time, I tell you that there is no making an end of suffering & stress without reaching the end of the cosmos.

 

Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos.

 

It's not to be reached by traveling, the end of the cosmos — regardless.

 

And it's not without reaching the end of the cosmos that there is release from suffering & stress.

 

So, truly, the wise one, an expert with regard to the cosmos, a knower of the end of the cosmos, having fulfilled the holy life, calmed, knowing the cosmos' end, doesn't long for this cosmos or for any other."

 

Buddha

"Choose someone as a successor and you will inevitably be succeeded.
Choose someone hungrier and you will be devoured.
Choose someone quicker and you won't dodge the blade at your back.
Choose someone with more patience and you won't block the blade at your throat.
Choose someone more devious and you'll hold the blade that kills you.
Choose someone more clever and you'll never know your end.
Despite these cautions, an apprentice is essential. A Master without an apprentice is a Master of nothing."

 

 

Darth Sidious

 

27 minutes ago, SuperG.Girl said:

"Choose someone as a successor and you will inevitably be succeeded.
Choose someone hungrier and you will be devoured.
Choose someone quicker and you won't dodge the blade at your back.
Choose someone with more patience and you won't block the blade at your throat.
Choose someone more devious and you'll hold the blade that kills you.
Choose someone more clever and you'll never know your end.
Despite these cautions, an apprentice is essential. A Master without an apprentice is a Master of nothing."

 

 

Darth Sidious

 

 

 

Awesome character

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIWMDbNqtW0

"Those things he lived,

 

he died in their defense"

 

Gravestone of Poet and soldier, Captain Keith Douglas, KIA June 9, 1944.  St. Pierre, France.

Be like a good horse when touched by the whip
 

Ardent and alarmed
 

Through strength, virtue, and vigor,
 

Through concentration and investigation of truth
 

Mindful and possessed of right knowledge and conduct

You will leave this great suffering behind.

 

Buddha

You remind me of someone from long ago.

Someone who was very dear to me

 

       I'm flattered.  What happened to him?

 

He died..

     

      But I'm not that man..

 

Stop it, stop it!!!!  So what are you? A spirit... some ghost sent to torment me???

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespeare

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare

For he today who sheds his blood with me

shall be my brother,

until the ending of the world..

 

And we in it shall be remembered..

 

We few.

We happy few,

We band band of brothers..

 

― William Shakespeare

 

 

 

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

 

 

 

Fluellen: "If your Majesty is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which your Majesty knows, to this hour is an honourable badge of the service, and I do believe, your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day."

King Henry: "I wear it for a memorable honour; for I am Welsh, you know, good my countryman...."

"It is a good life we lead brother.

The best.

May it never change.

And may it never change us."