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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.  —Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.  —Buddha

(Source: thesleepingfawn, via spiritual-musings)

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Today is World Holocaust Rememberence Day

The photos above are part of the US Holocaust Museum’s Remember Me? Project.  They are children displaced by World War II who the museum is hoping to further identify.

If you recognize yourself or someone you know in one of the photos, please contact the Museum’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at RememberMe@ushmm.org or via phone at 202-488-0416.

Annette Rosen

Mirjam Rozenblum

Simone Eskiss Lorange

Ursula Pluta

Grazia Di Castro (Italy)

Monika Charlier

Odette Seror

Marta Cierpiol

Chane Goldstein

Renee Rosen

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

—Carl Jung (via wordslessspoken)

fetishofsilence: Melancholy Artist: Odilon Redon Completion Date: 1876 Style: Symbolism Genre: symbolic painting Technique: charcoal Material: paper Gallery: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

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Melancholy

Artist: Odilon Redon
Completion Date: 1876
Style: Symbolism
Genre: symbolic painting
Technique: charcoal
Material: paper
Gallery: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

(via oldpainting)

positive-press-daily: A father who has completed more than 1,000 marathons and triathlons while pushing his disabled son will now have a life-sized statue of himself unveiled in Boston. Dick Hoyt, 72, has pushed his son, Rick Hoyt, 51, in almost 1,100 endurance events and is preparing to compete in their 31st Boston Marathon. The exact number of races they’ve competed in is astonishing. In total, they’ve completed 1,091 events, including 252 triathlons, 70 marathons, 94 half marathons, and 155 five-kilometer races. They have never finished last in any of them. It all started when Rick told his dad in middle school that he wanted to compete in a marathon for a basketball player who was paralyzed in an accident.  “Rick came home from that basketball game and he said, ‘Dad, I have to do something for him. I want to let him know that life goes on even though he’s paralyzed. I want to run in the race,’” Dick explained. He agreed to push him in his wheel chair in the race, but it was Rick’s words after the race that pushed him to do more. He told his father the night after the race, “Dad, when I’m running, it feels like I’m not handicapped.” Rick has cerebral palsy and is quadriplegic. Doctors told Dick to put him in an institution because he was “going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life.” But he refused, and never thought once of putting him in a home. Read more.

positive-press-daily:

A father who has completed more than 1,000 marathons and triathlons while pushing his disabled son will now have a life-sized statue of himself unveiled in Boston.

Dick Hoyt, 72, has pushed his son, Rick Hoyt, 51, in almost 1,100 endurance events and is preparing to compete in their 31st Boston Marathon.

The exact number of races they’ve competed in is astonishing. In total, they’ve completed 1,091 events, including 252 triathlons, 70 marathons, 94 half marathons, and 155 five-kilometer races. They have never finished last in any of them.

It all started when Rick told his dad in middle school that he wanted to compete in a marathon for a basketball player who was paralyzed in an accident. 

“Rick came home from that basketball game and he said, ‘Dad, I have to do something for him. I want to let him know that life goes on even though he’s paralyzed. I want to run in the race,’” Dick explained.

He agreed to push him in his wheel chair in the race, but it was Rick’s words after the race that pushed him to do more.

He told his father the night after the race, “Dad, when I’m running, it feels like I’m not handicapped.”

Rick has cerebral palsy and is quadriplegic. Doctors told Dick to put him in an institution because he was “going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life.”

But he refused, and never thought once of putting him in a home.

Read more.