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Sunday, June 10, 2007
life is so good, a book - 11:52 AM
(filed under 'general')
i just finished reading a really good book (in ebook format from here). it's "life is good" by george dawson & richard glaubman.
what an inspiring & uplifting book! it's not about calamity that befalls him or terrible times he went through or how poor or downtrodden he was, but how his life is good because he made it good. he wasn't rich & he wasn't even educated. in fact, he didn't even learn to read until he was ninety-eight years old. ninety-eight!! despite no formal edcuatin, though, he was a smart man & he worked hard & made his life good.
i copied some quotes from the book which i want to share.
first, a couple of quotes from him about how you make of life what you want to & about accepting things as they are:
"Mostly I have good memories, but even if I wanted to I can't make the truth good or bad. It's just what it is."
"People forget that a picture ain't made from just one color. Life ain't all good or all bad. It's full of everything."
.. & another quote from when he became relatively well known after he started school at ninety-eight years of age & he was taken to NASA for a tour & learned how they hope to live on other planets one day. this one amuses me because he takes it in his stride almost as a bunch of kids (which i suppose they are to him at that age) having to learn & discover in their own way:
"People fly in airplanes, but living on other planets, that's something else. They even gave me a picture of Mars. It's got poor-looking soil and it's too rocky to grow anything. Maybe they plan to bring food with them. Even so, I just don't see it. A man will come out on the front porch and there won't be nothing to do. There won't be no other people to mix with.
Of course, I didn't tell that to those folks at NASA. They have a good time there and like what they're doing. I wouldn't want to ruin that for them. If it don't hurt nobody else, I don't see no harm in it. But if they ever get up there to live, I think they're going to be disappointed. Still, they will have to figure that out for themselves."
if you get a chance to read this book, do so. really inspiring. it's one of those books that make you feel good & cause you to think about life differently. 
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