"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
-Helen Keller
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Inspiration for A Winged Life
“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.”
-William Blake
"Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings."
-Victor Hugo
"What we call love simply requires that we seek the good of another."
-Thomas Aquinas 13th Century Theologian
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
- Barbara Winter
“But I want first of all — in fact as an end to these other desires — to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want in fact—to borrow from the language of the saints — to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.”
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in "A Gift from the Sea." |
