Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to watch till her mouth can
Enrich the smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
--W. H. Davies

Learn to love

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."

--St. Francis de Sales

Beginning

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

--Seneca

Listen

“Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.”

--Saint Benedict

A long way

One may go a long way after one is tired.  

--French Proverb

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

Friends

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.  

~Epicurus

Down the road

“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
--Isak Dinesen