Friday, January 13, 2023

Quiet minds

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened
    but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace,
        like a clock during a thunderstorm.

            Robert Louis Stevenson, Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature

 

 

 

 

 

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