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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Charm
Appalachian Trail over Roan Highlands
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes
without asking a clear question.”
Albert Camus, 1913-1960
Anticipation
Lower Higgins Creek Falls
“What we anticipate seldom occurs;
what we least expected generally happens.”
Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
British Prime Minister
Pilgrim’s Hymn
Action
“Thanksgiving, after all,
is a word of action.”
W.J. Cameron
Fidelity
“Many persons have a wrong idea
of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller, 1880-1968
Dissipating Grief
Crabtree Falls, NC
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.
You must wait till it be digested,
and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Deliberate
Unaka Mountain switchback
“The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding,
is to go deliberately forth and try to lift
with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else.”
Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931
English novelist
Serenity
Roan Mountain
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Triumph
Doe River Gorge
“Why comes temptation,
but for man to meet and master
and crouch beneath his foot,
and so be pedestaled in triumph?”
Robert Browning, 1812-1889
Committee Work
Roan Mountain homestead
“There is no monument dedicated
to the memory of a committee.”
Lester J. Pourciau
Force of Action
“The self is not something ready-made,
but something in continuous formation
through choice of action.”
John Dewey, 1859-1952
Shed the Old
“You’ve got to make a conscious choice
every day to shed the old –
whatever ‘the old’ means for you.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
A Quotation
“Life itself is a quotation.”
Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
Desirable Humility
White’s Mill, Abingdon, VA
“What makes humility so desirable
is the marvelous thing it does to us;
it creates in us a capacity
for the closest possible intimacy with God.”
Monica Baldwin, 1893-1975
British nun
Full Schedule
“There cannot be a crisis next week.
My schedule is already full.”
Henry Kissinger, b. 1923
Resolve
“You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless,
and the honest desire to help other people,
will, in the quickest and delicatest ways,
improve yourself.”
John Ruskin, 1819-1900
Starting Point
Unaka Mountain Road
“The toughest thing about success
is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
Talent is only a starting point in this business.
You’ve got to keep on working that talent.
Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.”
Irving Berlin, 1888-1989
Insight
Buladean, NC
“A moment’s insight
is sometimes worth
a lifetime’s experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935
So Many Stories
“There are so many different ways lives work out,
so many stories, and every one of them is precious:
full of joy and heartbreak,
and a fair amount of situation comedy.”
Sean Stewart
Reaction
Mabry Mill, Blue Ridge Parkway, VA
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing,
that is a big accomplishment.
That quality is important because
it stays with you the rest of your life.”
Chris Evert, b. 1954
Deadlines
Roan Mountain viewed from NC
“I love deadlines.
I like the whooshing sound
they make as they fly by.”
Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
There You Are
“And remember,
no matter where you go,
there you are.”
Earl Mac Rauch,
from “Buckaroo Bansai”
Quieter than rain
“Now constantly there is the sound,
quieter than rain,
of the leaves falling.”
Wendell Berry
