“If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ’s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.”
Angela of Foligno
“Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
“We evaluate others with a Godlike justice,
but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.”
Sydney J. Harris
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Virginia Woolf
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
Cloudy evening on Round Bald, Roan Mountain
“Nothing has taught me dependence on God like letting go of people.”
Connally Gilliam
“Revelations of a Single Woman”
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.”
(Bidden or unbidden, God is here.)
Carl Jung, 1875-1961
Swiss psychiatrist
Doe River near Roan Mountain State Park, TN
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains,
losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and
we shall soon see them in their proper figures.”
Joseph Addison, 1672-1719
English poet and dramatist
View from Round Bald, Roan Mountain, TN
“Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.”
George Wherry, 1852-1928
Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot
Doe River near Roan Mountain State Park, TN
“As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,
the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.”
Stephen Graham, 1884-1975, The Gentle Art of Tramping
English novelist and travel writer
AT crossing Roan balds
Emerson
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
Appalachian Trail, Roan Mountain
“Leaders don’t create followers,
they create more leaders.”
Tom Peters
Doe River, Roan Mountain
“In the right light,
at the right time,
everything is extraordinary.”
Aaron Rose
Roan Mountain
“Do give books — religious or otherwise — for Christmas.
They’re never fattening, seldom sinful,
and permanently personal.”
Lenore Hershey
“When you lose your integrity
you lose your right to lead.”
D. Gyertson
Rime ice on Roan Highlands
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings
but silence breaks your heart.”
C.S Lewis
Appalachian Trail looking toward Grassy Ridge and Hump Mountain near Roan
“Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.”
W. H. Auden, 1907-1973
Roan Mountain
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Roan Mountain homestead
“There is no monument dedicated
to the memory of a committee.”
Lester J. Pourciau
Roan Mountain viewed from NC
“I love deadlines.
I like the whooshing sound
they make as they fly by.”
Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
View of Roan Mountain and Unaka Mountain over town of Unicoi
About the time we think we can make ends meet,
somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964
Roan Mountain
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns.”
George Eliot
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem
brings us face to face with another problem.”
Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
‘Strength to Love,’ 1963
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