“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.” NeedsStillsFacesTurnsFireEventsMaterialsHigherCircumstancesAimObstaclesPursueFuelThrownInwardLampsConsumed Book:Meditations: A New Translation Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.” MindBookIdeasSeemsTurnsWonderfulSubjectsConversationExtraordinaryNewspapersPursueCoincidenceFrequency Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825 Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825