"To a frog that's never left his..." - Quote by Rumi
To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
More by Rumi
“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.”
“I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.”
“We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror”
More on Perspective
“There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.”
“Its not what happens that counts...It's how you react.”
“I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.”
More on Growth
“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”