Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact
Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.
You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.
Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.
Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.
Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.
People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.
If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.