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“All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.”

Knows Life Wells Looks Next Rocks Danger One Day Mortals Perplexity

Author:Sophocles

“Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!”

Men Love Life Kindness Fire Rocks Cold Love Life Fire Of Love

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!”

Life Philosophy Simple Teach Rocks Masters Life Philosophy Firm

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.”

Life Reason Whole Life Is Passion Pleasure Rocks Wind Pride Ocean Storm Wide Guides Whole Life Pilots Vessel Bosoms

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.”

Life Rocks Built Ships Sand Vow Anchors Edifice

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”