“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.” LifeMayMomentsSeemsLife IsSufferingBlackImaginationOur LivesBearsHorrorLowsLipsCloudsTrialsDesertInstantSubstitutesContrastDreadThirstCurtainsBrightnessTransientHeavinessRespite Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” LoveLifeProblemRelationshipInspirational LifeMountainLowsWork OutHeightClimbsClimbingHikingMountaineeringMountain ClimbingClimbing MountainRock ClimbingInspirational AdventureInspirational Mountain ClimbingHiking In The MountainsMountain TopClimbing Mountains InspirationalClimbing To The TopReaching The Top Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.” KnowsMenLifeSometimesNatureLowsRateGenuineCompareIntrospectionMeasurement Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe