“I will love the light for it shows me the way,
yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
Og Mandino, 1923-1996
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Interruptions
Trout Lily
“My whole life I have complained
that my work was constantly interrupted,
until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.”
Henri Nouwen
Think Yourself So
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”
Jacopo Sannazaro
Have a Heart
“Have a heart that never hardens,
a temper that never tires,
a touch that never hurts.”
Charles Dickens
Sensible Tokens
“Get not your friends by bare compliments,
but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Socrates, 469 BC-399 BC
One Who Sees
“Everything that’s made beautiful and fair and lovely
is made for the eye of one who sees it.”
Rumi
Anyway
Trillium
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right –
for you’ll be criticized anyway.
You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962
Take a Break
“Never lose sight of this important truth,
that no one can be truly great
until he has gained a knowledge of himself,
a knowledge which can only be acquired
by occasional retirement.”
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Solace & Inspiration
View from Roan Highlands
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember,
a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight;
a home, a teacher, a companion.”
Lorraine Anderson
Not My Will but Yours
“For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model.
Removing mountains can wait.”
C. S. Lewis
All You Can
“Make all you can,
save all you can,
give all you can.”
John Wesley, 1703-1791
Shhh
Lower Higgins Creek, Unicoi County, Tennessee
“Under all speech that is good for anything
there lies a silence that is better.
Silence is deep as Eternity;
speech is shallow as Time.”
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Defeat of Habit
“Creativity can solve almost any problem.
The creative act,
the defeat of habit by originality,
overcomes everything.”
George Lois
More Work
“Laziness means more work in the long run.”
C.S. Lewis
