Monthly Archives: August 2011

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise person. ~Henry David Thoreau

Never a ship sails out of the bay But carries my heart as a stowaway. ~Roselle Mercier Montgomery

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard

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. ~Henry David Thoreau

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. – Jim Rohn  

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Shelley

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. – Lucretius

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe