“Faith… is the art of holding on to things
your reason once accepted,
despite your changing moods.”
C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Simple Love
“I want a simple love like that
Always giving, never askin’ back
For when I’m in my final hour lookin’ back
I hope I had a simple love like that.”
Virtue
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next;
virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan, 1851-1931
President of Indiana University and Stanford University
Leading educator and peace activist
Results of Pain
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
Carl Jung, 1875-1961
Swiss psychiatrist
What We Don’t Have
“May we never let the things we can’t have,
or don’t have, or shouldn’t have,
spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
As we value our happiness, let us not forget it,
for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy
without the things we cannot or should not have.”
Richard L. Evans, 1906-1971
Death Matters
“It is hard to have patience with people who say ‘There is no death’
or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters.
And whatever happens has consequences,
and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible.”
C.S. Lewis
Unclench
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
British philosopher
Small or Great
Good Reasons
“There is no good reason.
Don’t waste your life waiting for good reasons…
You’ll wait and wait.”
Susan Minot (Evening)
Tennessee Waterways
Laurel Run Falls, Church Hill, TN
“My birthplace was the mountain,
My nurse the April showers,
My cradle was a fountain,
O’er-curtained by wild flowers.”
Anonymous
As seen on Rivers of Tennessee Walk,
Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park
Nashville, Tennessee
Stand Up
Blueberry blossoms
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
Don’t Wait
A Beautiful Life
Roan Mountain
“A beautiful life does not just happen,
it is built daily by prayer, humilty, sacrifice and love.
May that beautiful life be yours always.”
Dennis Castillo
Two Pains
Calla Lily
“We must all suffer from one of two pains:
the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
The difference is discipline weighs ounces
while regret weighs tons.”
Jim Rohn, b. 1930
Author and entrepreneur
A Beautiful Thing
“Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair
taught me that life is really a beautiful thing;
if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to recognize
that anything was wrong.”
Greg Evans
Suspense Novelist
Make the Best
Turk’s Cap Lily
“Things turn out best
for those who make the best
of the way things turn out.”
Jack Buck, 1924-2002
American sportscaster
The Soul’s Knees
“Certain thoughts are prayers.
There are moments when,
whatever be the attitude of the body,
the soul is on its knees.”
Victor Hugo, 1802-1855
French poet, playwright, novelist
Craftsman
Tipton Haynes State Historical Site, Johnson City
“Where you find quality,
you will find a craftsman,
not a quality-control expert.”
Must Haves
“Just living is not enough.
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
Hans Christian Anderson, 1805-1875
Danish author and poet
Wisdom
“Wisest is he who knows he does not know.”
Old Eastern Saying
Knowing
“We are torn between the craving to know
and the despair of having known.”
F. Sagan, 1935-2004
French playwright, novelist
Examples
Rare Gray’s Lily on Roan Mountain
“As I grow older, I pay less attention
to what [people] say.
I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie
Independence Day!
Columbines at Dallas Botanical Garden
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Erma Bombeck, 1927-1996
American humorist
Home
“Peace — that was the other name for home.”
Kathleen Norris, b. 1947
Best-selling author of The Cloister Walk,
Dakota, and Amazing Grace
Teamwork
“It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
Author Unknown
