Transformation

RIC_8943-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

Victor E. Frankl

Enthusiasm

RIC_8964-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
     requirements of life, when all that we need to make us
     happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

    Charles Kingsley

Patience

RIC_8970-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.




     The root of the Italian word for patience, pazienza, comes
     from pax or pacem, Latin for peace. Within patience, there
     is peace. So simple, yet so startling.


      W. S. Merwin, , "Pazienza," Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul, Selected and
      Introduced by Judith Valentine and Charles Reynard

Struck

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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.


Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek