"I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing."

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Source : Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.89, Penguin

Irene Hunt

#Beautiful Quotes #Morning Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.”
“Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.”
“The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde ways like radical Islam.”
“When you experience your origin as a reality, you are happy. Be constant under all circumstances and relate to one thing - you are a part of Infinity and always lean on that power - then you'll never be unhappy.”
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.”
“You can't trust girls. When I get a girlfriend I am not going to tell her where I live or work.”

Source : David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.30, Penguin
“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”

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