sometimes supports the view of providence, at other times calls events spontaneously occurring or ascribes destiny to external factors. At times you hold the deeds of individuals to be the mould of their desert, at other times find that another’s deeds project their moral reflection on the individual. The miracle is that none blames you for these paradoxical utterances!”
o HENNY YOUNGMAN –”If youre going to do something tonight that youll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” o HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL –”In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.” o HENRI J M NOUWEN –”The spiritua! life does not remove us from the world but leadu us deeper into it. ” o HENRY D THOREAU –”A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into, which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature… The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water — so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”
o HENRY D THOREAU-“I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived i did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did i wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to
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