"A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear."

-- Sijie Dai

#Country Quotes #Wind Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Branching is easy. Merging is hard.”
“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”
“There is a kind of immortality in every garden.”
“Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2009). “The Baxters Take One”, p.94, Zondervan
“You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars”
“It is easy in ministry or in life, to begin to rely on acquired knowledge instead of fresh knowledge revealed. We must maintain our union with Him to enjoy fresh oil and then there is no old oil. The life of God or presence of God can't be stored, it has to be current. It is a well of life, continually outflowing.”
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
“Talent borrows, genius steals!”

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