
Life is like a mountain railroad with an engineer that’s brave
We must make the trip successful from the cradle to the grave
Watch the curves, the hills and tunnels, do not falter, do not fail
Keep your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the rail
Blessed Savior’s love will guide us
‘Til we reach that distant shore
Where the angels wait to join us
In that great for ever more.
- Gospel Song, Life’s Railway To Heaven
Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-George Bernard Shaw
All my life’s a circle, sunrise and sundown,
Moon rolls through the night time, ‘til the daybreak comes around
All my life’s a circle, though I can’t tell you why
Seasons spinning ‘round again, the years keep rolling by.
- Harry Chapin
And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough. All those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival the only meaning.
- Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Bernie wrote:
Life is a series of passages and it is indeed a circle through which we will all pass more than once. (more…)