“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.”
Georg Trakl, 1887-1914
Austrian poet
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Cherish Spring
Rue Anemone or Windflower
“For every person who has ever lived there has come,
at last, a spring he will never see.
Glory then in the springs that are yours.”
Pam Brown
Hope Rekindled
“Expect to have hope rekindled.
Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Only Spring
Bloodroot, Laurel Run Park
“Every spring is the only spring,
a perpetual astonishment.”
Ellis Peters, 1913-1995
British author
The Spring is Come!
Spring Beauties at Laurel Run Park
“Behold, my friends, the spring is come;
the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun,
and we shall soon see the results of their love!”
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux war chief
Loving
“The pleasure of love is in loving.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
Arrogance
“The best defense against misguided arrogance
is a keen sense of humour.”
Kathryn L. Nelson,
Pemberley Manor, 2006
Serious
“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936
Familiar
“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people
that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else.”
Ogden Nash, 1902-1971
Work
“I like work: it fascinates me.
I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Jerome K. Jerome, 1859-1927
Look Under Foot
Trout Lillies
“The lesson which life repeats
and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’
You are always nearer the divine
and the true sources of your power than you think.”
John Burroughs, 1837-1921
American naturalist
Forgive
“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble
as when it foregoes revenge
and dares to forgive an injury.”
Edward Chapin, 1831-1863
Killed in the Civil War
Pleased
“You can be pleased with nothing
when you are not pleased with yourself.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762
A True Friend
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths;
feels your fears but fortifies your faith;
sees your anxieties but frees your spirit;
recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
William Arthur Ward, 1921-1994
Thank Goodness
“When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed.
Our weight isn’t etched into our headstones.”
Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
Crises
“We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.”
Elizabeth Janeway, 1913-2005
Author and critic
Mistakes
“No one who cannot rejoice
in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar.”
Donald Foster
Listen to Your Body
“Our own physical body possesses a wisdom
which we who inhabit the body lack.”
Henry Miller, 1891-1980
Powerless
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs
as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you.
So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs,
and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Backwards and Forwards
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”
Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898
Seize It
“Seize the moment of excited curiosity
on any subject to solve your doubts;
for if you let it pass, the desire may never return,
and you may remain in ignorance.”
William Wirt, 1772-1834
U.S. Attorney General
In Disguise
“Another belief of mine:
that everyone else my age is an adult,
whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood, b. 1939
Canadian author, poet
Unremembered
“That best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
