Wisdom

‘We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.’ – Marcel Proust

Work

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!- Henry David Thoreau, Economy, Walden.

Fate

"There ought to be no such thing as Fate. As long as we use this word, it is a sign of our impotence and that we are not yet ourselves." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journal Entry, April 1842)

Imagination

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination . . . they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building. – Robert Collier

To let it go

Have so many favorites when it comes to Mary Oliver.. but because of the lines excerpted below, In Blackwater Woods has to be one of my favorite poems of Mary Oliver!