Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.
~ William Shakespeare
(Friar Lawrence in Romeo & Juliet)
patience
Category: John William Waterhouse
my own nature
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountainside.
~ Emily Brontë
(The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë)
a sacred flame
The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.
~ Marianne Williamson
(Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage)
looking at life
I’ve looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know life at all
~ Joni Mitchell
♫ (Both Sides Now) ♫
salt water healing
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Isak Dinesen
(20,000 Quips & Quotes)
mastering the wind
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness … the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
~ Teilhard de Chardin
(The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World)
opening the door
♥ Happy Valentine’s Day ♥
by John William Waterhouse