THE GEM 7 SEP 2018 : “BY LOVING THEM FOR MORE THAN THEIR ABILITIES WE SHOW OUR CHILDREN THAT THEY ARE MUCH MORE THAN THE SUM OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.”
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THE GEM 31 JULY 2018 : “LIFE IS LIKE THE RIVER, SOMETIMES IT SWEEPS YOU GENTLY ALONG AND SOMETIMES THE RAPIDS COME OUT OF NOWHERE.” EMMA SMITH
Striking out
To reach you
I can’t get through
To the other side
When you’re racing
In the rapids
There’s only one way
That’s to ride
GENESIS
THE GEM 8 AUGUST 2015 : Because all little girls deserve to be protected. Even the daughters of douche bags.”
THE GEM 8 AUGUST 2015
― Kimberly Wollenburg, Crystal Clean: A mother’s struggle with meth addiction and recovery
A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams.
Kurdish Proverb
THE GEM 3 DEC 2014 : I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.
THE GEM 3 DEC 2014
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? …We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”
― Diane Ackerman
From his brimstone bed at break of dayA walking the Devil is gone,To visit his snug little farm the earth,And see how his stock goes on.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, The Devil’s Thought
THE GEM 7 SEP 2014
Ageni eri na karirui kao
Two guests love a different song.
When you receive two visitors at the same time, you cannot treat them in the same manner, because they have different tastes.
THE GEM 6 SEP 2014 : The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.”
THE GEM 6 SEPT 2014
Michelangelo
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
THE GEM 5 SEP 2014 : The first part of a warm greeting is a good smile.
THE GEM 5 SEPTEMBER 2014
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions,
even though they have been held in honour
for many generations and in diverse places.
Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it.
Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past.
Do not believe what you yourself have imagined,
persuading yourself that a God inspires you.
Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests.
After examination, believe what you yourself have tested
and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
Buddha
