"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

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George Eliot

#Fall Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.”
“Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.”
“Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.”
“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”
“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”
“Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.”
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.”

Source : Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan
“The right to be respected is won by respecting others.”

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