PURPOSE

PURPOSE - Quotes from the papers of Tom "Grandpa" Glennon

“Oh God, to have reached the point of death, only to find that you have never lived at all.”  --Thoreau

“We are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness.”  --Schweitzer

“If love is the answer - what is the question?  What does the world need?”

“To live life to the end is not a childish task.”  --Boris Pasterriah

“There is a great deal more to living than just existing.  You commit a sin of omission if you don’t utilize all the power that is in you.”  --Tom Dooley

“People should celebrate their unique humanity.”

“To be of use in the world is the only way to be happy.”  --H. C. Andersen

“Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life.”  --Seneca

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”  --Lao-Tse

“Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.”  --Russian Proverb

“Life is short and we have not too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark way with us.  Oh, be swift to love.  Make haste to be kind.” 
--Henri F. Amiel

“So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” 
--Robert Louis Stevenson

“If the Sun and Moon should doubt, they’d immediately go out.”  --William Blake

“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.”  --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Far better ‘tis to die the death that flashes gladness, than alone, in frigid dignity to live on high.  Better, in burning sacrifice be thrown against the world to perish, than the sky to circle endlessly a barren stone.” 
--The Shooting Star author unknown quoted in nature Aug. 26, 1933

On a gravestone in a cemetery on Route 7 Arlington, Vermont.
“In memory of Captain Elijah Galusha
Who died on May the 26th, 1783, aged 25 years 6 months and 27days.
You travelers now stop and spy,
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you must be,
Prepare yourselves to follow me.”

“We make a living by what we get - We make a life by what we give.”

“We are always trying to change the world but never ourselves.”

“The greatest gift…is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed.  It is good for one to appreciate that life is now.  Whatever it offers, little, or much, life is now -- this day -- this hour -- this minute.”  --Flandrau

“You don’t understand Doctor, I am not crying because I am going to die.  I am crying because I have never lived.”

“Getting older there’s a test to show if you mission on earth is finished - if you’re alive, it isn’t.”

Chief Seattle - Duwamish Tribe of Oregon
Mystery of Life and Communion:
“All things are connected …
Whatever befalls the earth befall the children of the earth.
We did not weave the web of life, we are merely stands in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon?  Why we are not able to cross the abyss it separates us from ourselves?”