I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. ~Baba Ram Dass
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~John Burroughs
Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
That last one is one of my favorites.
Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Ann
Filed under: General
OOO, deep thoughts! I love the last one too. When I was young I hated the Cheshire cat; he seemed so difficult and insubstantial. Now he gives me comfort. - dritta
It’s funny, I remember being irritated with the Chesire cat too! My favs. are the Murrow and Thoreau quotes…..
Wow, sounds like you have been at some of those Mary Kay meetings I used to attend!!
Cheers
Shari