Wednesday, September 29, 2010

one step at a time

The safest road to hell is the gradual one: the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. {C.S. Lewis}
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. {C.S. Lewis}
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. {C.S. Lewis}
At the end of things, the blessed will say, "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven." And the lost will say, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly. {C.S. Lewis}

Stairway to Heaven:
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on {Led Zeppelin}

2 comments:

Sunshine Designed said...

Love today's post... and pictures.
Love CS. Lewis.

Here is a favorite of mine.

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Tawna said...

Love the pictures! My favorite person to quote is Paulo Coelho. My favorite today, "Don't explain your feelings. They are yours."