Hagrid's advice after Márquez

It's Odin's day … Spring thunderstorms are in the forecasts for Okieland overnight tonight . . .

549 years ago today, Michelangelo was born on this day in 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence, Italy.

405 years ago Cyrano de Bergerac was born in 1619, Paris.

In 1836 The Alamo in what is now San Antonio, Texas, fell after a 13 day seige by Santa Anna. Texas still haven't got over the myth.

And, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, was born today in 1927 Aracataca, Colombia.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

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Just because someone doesn't love you as you wish, it doesn't mean you're not loved with all their being.

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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– Gabriel García Márquez

"It does not do to dwell only on dreams and forget to live” – Hagrid to Harry, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.