"Think," said Dante, "that this day will never dawn again."

I admit it.

I am very fond of writers.

They are wordsmiths - painting every story with rainbows of colours that exist whether or not it has just rained, sculpting imagined memories of things you have never experienced or seen, inspiring their readers to dream dreams that before now never seemed possible, and sometimes, they can change your life - with just words, they can shed a light upon an undiscovered door and lead you to see things in a whole different way.

One such writer would be the late Dale Carnegie.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1124.html

On a slightly separate note, Obituary sections in newspapers, too, have a strange effect on me. (Although it may not be exactly absurd to suggest they have an effect on every one of its readers.)

Today, after a few months of not reading the obituaries, I took a look - and saw that the grandfather of one of my tutors passed away yesterday.

So today, I will share with you a passage from one of Dale Carnegie's books:

"Think," said Dante, "that this day will never dawn again."

Life is slipping away with incredible speed.

We are racing through space at the rate of nineteen miles every second.

Today is our most precious possession.

It is our only sure possession.

That is the philosophy of Lowell Thomas.

I recently spent a weekend at his farm; and I noticed that he had these words from Psalm cxviii framed and hanging on the walls of his broadcasting studio where he would see them often: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it".

-Dale Carnegie-

By the way, if you're still looking for Christmas gifts for your animal-lover friends, I reckon you could find some great gifts here: http://www.spca.org.my/gifts.htm. :) Thanks to An Nie for showing me the site! ;)