We should grow too fond of it. If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. Oscar Levent I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.
Arthur D. Little John Locke Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russel Lowell Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Nobody's ever insulted to be invited. Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices.