Love: strong as well as delicate

Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.

- Stephen Packer -

Omnipresence of love

You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world.

- David Levesque -

Only happiness in life

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

- George Sand -

The road not taken - Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.

Cherish the nectar of life...!

Nectar, def. 1555, from L. nectar "drink of the gods," from Gk. nektar, which is said to be a compound of nek- "death" + -tar "overcoming." Meaning "sweet liquid in flowers" first recorded 1609.

The above definition invokes a lot of curiosity.... has nectar ever existed on the earth? Can there be really a drink which can turn a mortal into immortal? Can I or someone else get it? Or was it just a symbol? I have found all the thinking in the direction to answer these questions futile. However I have still found an aswer to this question. Yes a mortal can achieve immortality, but not in the sense we think about mortality. We think mortality means living for endless number of years and enjoying the pleasures of earth. But will you be able to truly enjoy this kind of mortality? One such character who was really able to enjoy this kind of mortality was Bhishma or Devavrata in Mahabharata scripture. It doesn't matter whether such character really walked on this earth or not. What matters is that depiction of this character is so accurate that if such character would have really existed on this earth, he would never have had a better life than Bhishma. Going through the agony of watching not only all your siblings,relatives, friends and generations after generations die in front of you - is not it really pathetic?
But still a man can get immortality. An immortality, which he can get by drinking the nectar of life - just as Gandhi, Lincoln, Benjamin and many others did. All of these people were just ordinary people like us, but with only one distinction - the vision to make life better. This vision is all that made the difference. The difference which gave them immortality over the mortal men, and which enabled them to overcome death. But can vision alone make this difference and make you immortal? Even I have a vision and you surely also have a vision and this applies for most of thers also. We all have some visions at various scales. It can be anything, for example, getting a good job after college. But can you and I became immortals? these people had something more than just vision - the "desire of execution" to fulfill it and "dedication to execute". We all have desire to execute our vision, but still many people die with their vision in their eyes. What they all lack is the dedication to do something to make this vision a reality. Great people make their visions reality, and once a vision is fulfilled it leads to next vision. They are in execution race, while the other people are stuck in the "rat race" of working, spending, working harder, spending more and so on. All the while these people stuck in the "rat race" give the excuse of not having enough resources (time, money, qualification, manpower etc) to think or do something about fulfilling their vision. Their pet phrase is "when I have more..." (time/money/qualifiction). Can you think Gandhi could have been successful if he had said "when i have more money, I will take the risk of going into struggle". So this is what made these great people really great - vision, desire to execute, and dedication to execute.
But is it sufficient to qualify as nectar of life?

Abraham Lincoln

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln