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I dreamed I had an interview with God.

 

"Come in." God said. "So, you would like to interview Me?"

 

"If you have the time," I said.

 

God smiled and said,

"My time is eternity and is enough to do everything.
What quetions do you have in mind to ask me?"

 

"What surprises you most about manking?"

 

God answered:

 

"That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.

"That they lose their health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health."

That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live neither for the present nor the future.

"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived."

 

God's hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.

 

And then I asked...

"As a parent, what are some of life's lessons
you want your children to learn?"

 

God replied with a smile:

 

"To learn that cannot make anyone love them.
What they can do is to let themselves be loved.

To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives,
but who they have in their lives.

To learn that it is not good to compare themselvers to others.

"To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least."

To learn that is only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those we love,
and it can take many years to heal them.

To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.

"To learn that there are people who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings."

To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.

"To learn that two people can look at the same thing
and see it differently."

To learn that a true friend is someone who knows everything about them...
and likes them anyway.

"To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves."

 

 

People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.

 

Thinking of you. 

Usnuo sam san da razgovaram s Bogom.

 

"Dakle, ti bi zelio razgovarati sa mnom?" rece Bog.

 

"Ako imas vremena" rekoh.

 

Bog se nasmijesi.

"Moje je vrijeme vjecnost.
Sto si me kanio pitati?"

 

"Sto te najvise iznenadjuje kod ljudi?"

 

Bog odgovori:

 

"Sto im je djetinjstvo dosadno.
Zure da odrastu,
a potom bi zeljeli ponovo biti djeca.

Sto trose zdravlje da bi stekli novac,
pa potom trose novac da bi vratili zdravlje.

Sto razmisljaju tjeskobno o buducnosti,
zaboravljajuci sadasnjost.
Na taj nacin ne zive ni u sadasnjosti ni u buducnosti.

Sto zive kao da nikada nece umrijeti,
a onda umiru kao da nikada nisu zivjeli."

 

Bog me primi za ruku
Ostadosmo na trenutak u tisini.

 

Tada upitah:

"Kao roditelj,
koje bi zivotne pouke zelio da tvoja djeca nauce?"

 

Osmjehujuci se, Bog odgovori:

 

"Da nauce da nikoga ne mogu prisiliti da ih voli.
Mogu samo voljeti.

Da nauce da nije navrijednije ono sto posjeduju,
nego tko su u svom zivotu.

Da nauce kako se nije dobro usporedjivati s drugima...

Da nauce kako nije bogat onaj covjek koji najvise ima,
nego onaj kojem najmanje treba.

Da nauce kako je dovoljno samo nekoliko sekundi
da se duboko povrijedi voljeno bice,
a potom su potrebne godine da se izlijeci.

Da nauce oprastati tako da sami oprastaju.

Da spoznaju kako postoje osobe koje ih njezno vole,
ali to neznaju izreci niti pokazati.

Da nauce da se novcem moze kupiti sve. Osim srece.

Da nauce da dvije osobe mogu promatrati istu stvar,
a vidjet je razlicito.

Da nauce da je pravi prijatelj onaj koji zna sve o njima...
a ipak ih voli.

Da nauce kako nije uvijek dovoljno da im drugi oproste.
Moraju i sami sebi oprastati."

 

 

Ljudi ce zaboraviti sto si rekao.
Ljudi ce zaboraviti sto si ucinio.
Ali nikada nece zaboraviti kakve si osjecaje u njima pobudio.

 

Mislim na tebe.

Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Prezime EZGETA —  Surname EZGETA

je najvjerojatije po podrijetlu motivirano zanimanjem: prvonositelj je bio po zanimanju EGZETA.
Tumacio je, objasnjavao i iznosio kriticka objasnjenja biblijskih i drugih vjerskih i pravnih tekstova.
Naziv EZGETA najvjerojatnije je izveden kracenjem naziva EGZEGETA,
od starogrcke rijeci EXEGETES (ἐξήγησις od ἐξηγεῖσθαι) = PROROK, PROPOVJEDNIK, TUMAC, UCITELJ, SAVJETNIK, GATALAC
(gl. e x e g e i s t h a i = pokazati put, voditi (voditi van), izloziti, objasniti, tumaciti itd.)

[ IZVORI: Dr. B. Klaic, Rjecnik stranih rijeci, Zagreb 1962, str.384; N. Majnaric i O. Gorski, Grcko-hrvatskosrpski rjecnik, Zagreb 1960, str.195;
E. Partridge, ORIGINS — A Short Etymolofical Dictionary of Modern English, New York 1983, pp.190.602. ]


Neka istrazivanja migracija EZGETA kazu da su EZGETA bili Grci koji su se sa otoka Krete,
prije nego sto je rimski vojskovođa Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus (c. 135 BC – late 50s BC) osvojio Kretu 69. pne - 69 BC,
odselili na Dalmatinske otoke, a odatle...

 

 

Ime CARMEN —  Name CARMEN

CARMEN
— latinski: PJESMA (Carmen, -inis, n.)   /    CARMEN — Latin: SONG, TUNE, POEM (|noun| Carmen, Carminis Neuter)
and is also the root of the English
word charm.

 

 

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