"While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements."

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Source : Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

Alice Fulton

#Alive Quotes #Amazement Quotes #Minors Quotes

“And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.”
“I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.”
“What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.”
“Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.”
“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”
“When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.”
“I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.”
“The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.”

Source : Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”

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