"The Song for Angela and Sarah"
from Chapter 1







Though

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at
the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.      
Mark Twain


The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with
the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth.  
Albert Einstein


but

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone
wrong."  Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Charles Schultz - "Charlie Brown"


then again

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)


and

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934)


anyway

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right
keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach


that being said, after that

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
Author Unknown


and

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln


so that

Free-born to peace and justice,
We stand to guard and save...
Mary Perry King
from "The Hymn of Freedom"


for

It is by doing our duty that we learn to do it. So long as men[women]
dispute whether or no a thing is their duty, they get never the nearer.
E. B. Pusey (1880-1882)
Daily Strength for Daily Needs


and also

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin


remembering that

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)



Love...cannot exist and give no sign, or a false sign.
J. H. Thom. (1808-1894)


and

...What I'd have within my box
Has to do with Soul.
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)
from "The Richer Mines"


because

Friends are not only together when they are side by side, even one
who is far away is still in our thoughts.
Ludwig van Beethoven


and

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift


however

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy


and

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Wilbur Wright



so, in the end

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford


and

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost  
From "The Road Not Taken"


in essence

Whatever kind of life you are to live, must be lived
amid precisely the experiences in which you are now moving. Here you
must win your victories or suffer your defeats.
J. R. Miller (1840-1912)


moreover

To shape the whole Future is not our problem; but only to shape
faithfully a small part of it, according to rules already known.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1880)


so

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington


and

If a man [woman or child] does his[her] best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton...
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