Glimpses

Some verses, lyrics, and quotes that have come to mind in the last day or so...

So hey baby, can you shed some light on the problem maybe? / 'Cause we're all tired and we'd like to know / If we should pack our tents, shut down the show / Yes, we should like to see a burning bush-type sign / But anything would be fine -- "Anything", Sixpence None The Richer

Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies; for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. -- Proverbs 23:6-7a

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. -- Proverbs 23:18

Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. -- Proverbs 23:22

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength; for waging war you need guidance, and for victory many advisers. -- Proverbs 24:3-6

Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. -- Proverbs 24:14

I would leave each of you with the hope that as you make your own choices over time, you will choose in such a way that allows your drive for achievement to be balanced by an equal commitment to love and to play, to family, to friends and community. I hope... that when you are "old and gray and full of sleep," as the poet William Butler Yeats once wrote, that you can say that your goal in life was not the perfection of work alone but the perfection of a life. -- Doris Kearns, Dartmouth Commencement Address, 1998-06-14