“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.” LittlesHoursPathSeaSweetMetsLonelyCloudsSpeedShipsMistConversesFoamLonely Path Author:Alexander Smith
“A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.” MindPathSweetFlowerQuietSacredSolitaryHarvestPerfumeCompensationReapHumbleness Book:My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons Source: My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons
“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.” MenYearsTwoReasonLightEyeEarthYoungVoiceMemoriesWalksPathDivineSweetHigherAngelTraditionShiningGuidesEndlessChecksMysteriousStreamsYieldRaysCompellingFloatingLampsReflectingAccordFootstepsEvermoreRipening Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.” WayWisdomFunGrowsEasyPathSweetBattleHarderAgingThickCurmudgeon Author:James Hillman
“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.” LongNightHeavenEasyDarkHellPathDoorsAirSweetTasksInvestingBurdenAll NightDescentHades Author:Virgil
“The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.” MightCommonPathToo MuchTroubleSweetFlowerComfortHappeningsDelightAbstractUnusualUnusual Things Author:Orison Swett Marden