The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible. – Albert Einstein  – “The World As I See It,”

yours is the light by which my spirit’s born:

yours is the darkness of my soul’s return

-you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars

e e cummings

39 years and counting

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Trí caindle forosnat cach ndorcha: fír, aicned, ecna.

  Three candles that illumine every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.