age doesn’t matter, we can still all learn from each other

These are things I’ve picked up from some friends, sites, and books:

It is certain that the day will come where nothing visible to the eye is conceived without artistic anointment. One should always remember that the art of a nation is not only the measure of its prosperity, but also of its intelligence.

–Otto Wagner

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

–John Wooden

The heart has its own secret melody and one day, when the score is played, the heart answers: “This is it”. So it is with love. A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love…Some go through life without ever meeting what they call their ideal. This could be very disappointing if the ideal never really existed. But the absolute ideal of every heart does exist, and it is God. All human love is an initiation into the Eternal…

–Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, The World’s First Love

No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing?

–GK Chesterton

I implore you to love with me and, by believing, to run with me; let us long for our heavenly country, let us sigh for our heavenly home, let us truly feel that here we are strangers.

- St. Augustine

In the end we will save only what we love. We will love only what we understand. And we will understand only what we are taught.
-Baba Dioum

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

- Life of Pi, Yann Martel

This blog is meant mostly for friends and family, but if you have read so far, feel free to read and comment with suggestions of places to see.

A little about myself: I enjoy traveling, reading, swimming, meeting new people, eating delicious new foods, listening to music that my sisters give me, having coffee, biking, hiking, taking pictures, designing with other people, the architecture of the mundane, beautiful architecture, improving myself, joking with my friends,  gin and tonic, dancing, understanding what makes a person live, ambition, laughing, and love. Yeah, I enjoy love.. I guess I love it.

I’m like where I’m from, and I like where I’m going. I love where I am.