All Those Who Wander: December 2012

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Christmas

Christmas was fairly routine this year. Woke up, ate breakfast (bran muffins and scrambled eggs), cleaned the house, waited FOREVER to open presents, walked in, and started with the presents, going in age order. I got, among other things, clothes, a few books, candy, a few necessary items, and an amoeba. Pretty awesome. But the highlight of everything was the best present ever... An iPhone 4! I was so excited! (Correction: AM so excited.) And stunned. I'd always heard that I could get an iPhone/Droid when I was out of the house... Looks like Santa had some different ideas.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
--
Dumbledore