“Think of yourself as a seed
patiently wintering in the earth,
waiting to come up a flower.”
C.S. Lewis
Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Winning Blow
“You can do more than pray after you have prayed,
but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
Prayer is striking the winning blow –
service is gathering up the results.”
A New Stage
“Aging is not ‘lost youth’
but a new stage of
opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
Give All
“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Pleasure and Perfection
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC
Questions or Answers
Rough Ridge near Grandfather Mountain, NC
“It is better to know some of the questions
than all of the answers.”
James Thurber, 1894-1961
American author and cartoonist
Outlast
“The greatest use of life
is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
William James, 1842-1910
Clearness
“The man who insists on seeing
with perfect clearness before he decides,
never decides.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1821-1881
Swiss philosopher
Better Decisions
“If the people who make the decisions
are the people who will also
bear the consequences of those decisions,
perhaps better decisions will result.”
John Abrams
Fine Print
Rhododendron bud
“Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
Justice Diminished
Church of the Holy Cross, Valle Crucis, NC
“Justice denied anywhere
diminishes justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worst Prayers
“Our worst prayers may really be our best.
God seems to speak to us most intimately
when he catches us off guard.”
C. S. Lewis
Create Leaders
Appalachian Trail, Roan Mountain
“Leaders don’t create followers,
they create more leaders.”
Tom Peters
Blink
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye
as in months of rational analysis.”
Malcolm Gladwell
Careful
“The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease.
Sometimes it gets replaced.”
Vic Gold
Use It
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
True
Loudonville, OH
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805
Forget It
Pine Ridge Falls, Unicoi County, TN
“One of the keys to happiness
is a bad memory.”
Rita Mae Brown
Perpetual Tonic
“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work
and your life broadening and deepening,
if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you,
you have not found your place.”
Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924
Understanding Love
“Friendship is love with understanding.”
Author Unknown
Right Light
Doe River, Roan Mountain
“In the right light,
at the right time,
everything is extraordinary.”
Aaron Rose
Exactly Like Me
“Nobody can be exactly like me.
Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
Tallulah Bankhead, 1903-1968
