| On the Shore |
| One ship sails east and another west with the self-same winds that blow, 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale which determines the way they go. The winds of the sea are the ways of fate, as we voyage along through life, 'Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal, and not the calm or the strife. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| The night shall be filled with music and the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs and as silently steal away. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The keeper of the lighthouse does not launch any ships, but he keeps many a good ship from going to wreck. The light shines farther than the keeper can see, and brightest when he cannot see at all. Two things he has got to remember...to keep the light burning, and never to get in between the light and the darkness he's meant to lighten. -- John Faris |
| Patience...patience...is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. -- Ann Morrow Lindbergh - - - Faith is the soul riding at anchor. -- H. W. Shaw |
| I don't know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to be only like a small boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier shell or a smoother pebble than ordinary...while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton ~ ~ ~ Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But, within ourselves, we must renew it each day. -- Hermann Hesse |
| The pessimist never sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. -- Helen Keller ~ ~ ~ You can't cross the sea by staring at the water. -- Rabindranath Tagore |
| And the sea will grant each man new hope...his sleep bring dreams of home. -- Christopher Columbus ~ ~ ~ No one would've ever crossed the ocean if he could've gotten off the boat as soon as the first storm began. -- Charles Kettering |
| Watch your way then, as a cautious traveler, and don't be gazing at that mountain or river in the distance, and saying, "How shall I ever get over them?" but keep to the present little inch that is before you, and accomplish that in the little moments that belong to it. The mountain and the river can only be passed in the same way, and when you come to them, you will come to the light and strength that belong to them. -- M. A. Kelty |
| Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us, if only we can open ourselves to it. -- Charles Kingsley |
| Everybody needs beauty, places to play and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. -- John Muir |
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| Where we love is home...we may leave, but our heart remains. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Each day comes bearing its gifts...untie the ribbons. -- Ann Ruth Schabaker |
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