Saturday, February 21, 2015

Don't Throw It Away



ON THE ADVICE HE GAVE HIS CHILDREN:

"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
Stephen Hawking To Diane Sawyer/ABC News, June 2010. 




The love we have in this world is important, awesome and unique.  We should't forget that. This sentiment is wonderfully expressed by the scientist and engineer, Stephen Hawking, in his words of wisdom to his children. Love is also humorously and uniquely expressed by the writer, John Green (below). 

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.” 
― John GreenThe Fault in Our Stars

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