Mariah Turner

ideas will always try to

seek the swiftest and most efficient

conduit to the earth (just as lightning

does

Every unpleasure ought thus to coincide with a heightening, and every pleasure with a lowering,

A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his ultimate goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.'

"burning every bridge except the ones that set your heart on fire"

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can