Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.'
A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?'
To what it represents,' said Aven.
But I don't believe in what it represents,' said Jack.
Prayers aren't for the deity,' said Aven. 'They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.'
Can't you do that without praying to a dead Greek god?'
Sure,' said Aven. 'But how often would anyone do that, if not in prayer?
Tag: inspiration prayer
Live Free or Die; Death is Not the Worst of Evils.
John StarkTag: wisdom inspiration war new-england mottos battle new-hampshire john-stark
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.
James RedfieldTag: optimism inspiration
Inspiration is what keeps us well.
James RedfieldTag: inspiration
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.
James RedfieldTag: optimism future inspiration
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
Eduardo GaleanoTag: inspiration football soccer idol
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
Eduardo GaleanoTag: inspiration football soccer idol
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael PollanTag: happiness inspiration food relationships gardening motivation eating community sharing planet
Don't you know no one can escape
the power of creatures reaching out
with breath alone?
Tag: poetry power writing inspiration russian-author
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
Eberhard ArnoldTag: inspiration teaching guidance
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