Last Wednesday Wisdom for August 2017

On the last Wednesday of every month, I serve up a potpourri of advice, inspiration and other tidbits I've come across in recent weeks. In honor of the recent solar eclipse, this month's selection is all about light, dark and mystery.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
-- Og Mandino 

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
-- Count Antoine de Rivarol

Where there is much light the shade is deepest.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
-- Albert Schweitzer

In the light we read the inventions of others in the darkness we invent our own stories.
-- Alberto Manguel

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
-- Neil Armstrong

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
-- Walt Whitman, Poem of Perfect Miracles, Leaves of Grass