Blessed Isle

Famous quotes containing the words blessed and/or isle:

““What must I do to become blessed?” That I do not know, but I say to you: “Be blessed and then do whatever you please.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man’s busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)