Copsford Quotes

“Sometimes at the height of a summer day, when the sun is warm and the bees hum and all seems set for an endless season, suddenly for some slight thing, almost unconsciously discerned, the end is determined, the first breath of autumn is drawn in the midst of summer. I have known the same thing in the depth of winter, a twitter of birdsong, hazel catkins shaking loose their gold dust, perhaps the scent of mimosa or just a patch of blue sky, and one hears the first rustle of spring's awakening. Winter is doomed.”
― Walter J.C. Murray, Copsford

“It may seem absurd to those who read that I should have been so easily vanquished; but there are times that occasionally come when we are completely alone, cut off from all contact and intercourse with friends and acquaintances, when we are oppressed by the futility of all and every effort. It is more than procrastination; willpower is sapped, ambition withered, enthusiasm dead. No one is to blame but our own thinking. 'There is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so', but sometimes circumstances are so powerful that we yield to them and instantly a paralysis of inaction creeps upon us, both mental and physical.”
― Walter J.C. Murray, Copsford