“Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured: as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?”
“As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.”
“Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.”
“we can only flourish when we are truly grounded in self. keep that in mind when journeying.”
“she will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.”
“If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. The Lord’s people have always been a waiting people.”
“Cherish the beauty and cherish the pain, both will give you experience and you will never be the same”
“Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.”
“For things I am not thankful for
“Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.”
“The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve”
“Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.”
“Isn t it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured: as the arrow endures the string, collecting itself to be more than itself as it shoots?”
“I m tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I m hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don t want to have the same vocabulary I ve always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.”
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”
“When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to take in the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.”
“Science is only a Latin word for knowledge”