“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing” LifeDreamLightLife IsLyingReligionTreeRiversStaring Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.” InspirationalLife IsOpportunityBuddhismRiversBoatTraps Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.” FirstsLongFacesLife IsFallEnemyBoysProgressPeriodsRiversDancingRussiaBitterMapsYieldYour FaceRetreatPolishLife Is LikeCrossingsJanuaryFall BackMoraleMoscowSnowflakeFingernailsInvadingBlitzRationsIciclesGunnersCossacks Author:Julian Barnes