“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.”
“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
“You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”
“How could she resist them eyes?She tries, says Jack. Man, did she try.”
“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”
“A woman did not feel jealousy if her emotions were not engaged. And a wise man did not let it fester.”