“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.” LifeHumansLongMomentsRunningObjectsLong TimeLifetimeSupposed To BeHuman LifeStreamsGloriousTidesJustificationFlood Author:James Dickey
“Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.” HumansSidesWealthCitiesStreetsFashionMastersFlowRiversSlaveWaveCurrentsBroadsTidesRestlessCity LifeEbb And FlowIdlersCities At Night Book:The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Source: The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform
“To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.” HumansHeartSelfGamesWalksHuman NatureOughtFoolishSettingSettingsSettlingDisappointedThrowingExpectingTidesSelf ControlEnthusiastic Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith