Monday, January 10, 2011

closing doors

"the sound of a closing door, the saddest of all sounds sometimes..." - Phantastes, George MacDonald

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

2 comments:

Christina Jill said...

"I need not despise one to enjoy the other, and I need not to be ashamed of missing one while living in another. There will still be times of sadness and much that I will miss. But I do not want to miss the present by missing the past, or miss the here for missing the there."
~ Victor L. Luther (student)
On being a TCK (Third Culture Kid - MK)

These words have held and led me through many changes, many moves. Love you, dear friend. Here, now, then, there.

trish said...

I love that quote...especially the part about I don't want to miss the present by missing the past.

I would add, "I don't want to miss the present by longing for the future"

Here is another:
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because,
at the moment, we expected some other good.
- CS Lewis, Letters to Malcolm