“About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.” PeopleKnowsChanceSuccessfulRichSubjectsWindOne DayMilesShipsTidesHarborsPortEntrancesDriftingRuddersAdriftCoastline Author:Earl Nightingale
“And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded” FirstsLooksSeemsPainDifferencesOne DayDown AndTides Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.” MadeHandsPainNamesOne DayWaveTidesPreyStrandsSecond Hand Author:Edmund Spenser
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.” MenWorldWritingMadeSaidHandsPainDiesNamesHeavenVirtueOne DayFameWaveDustMortalsVainGloriousLive ByTidesDecayVersesOur LovePreyStrandsSecond Hand Author:Edmund Spenser