Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another,...
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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another,...
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains. Jon Krakauer,...
We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray. Victoria Damon
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it. Robert Englund
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds,...
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the...