"The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results."

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Henri Nouwen

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“My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.”

Source : Joseph Fielding Smith (1971). “Gospel Doctrine”
“...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.”
“Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.”
“Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.”
“In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.”
“The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.”
“If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.”
“The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.”

Source : "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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