Author Archives: TA Loeffler

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. ~William Wordsworth

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea. ~e.e. cummings

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

Fortune favors the brave. – Publius Terence

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague

The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Author Unknown

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. – Benjamin Disraeli

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe – Latin Proverb  

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. – Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. –Peter Drucker

One travels more usefully when alone, because s/he reflects more. –Thomas Jefferson

Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own. –Charles Scribner, Jr.

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.–Idries Shah

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton Wilder

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. – Johann Gottfried Von Herder