Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. – Attributed to Douglas MacArthur

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, “Economy” #infj

[A]ny concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook