"They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb..."

-- Frederick Buechner

#Eye Quotes #Giving Quotes #Bird Quotes

“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”
“I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.”
“Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.”
“Itâ€™s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.”
“Make the money, don't let the money make you Change the game, don't let the game change you”

Source : Song: Make The Money
“Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!”
“Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.”

Source : Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media
“I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.”

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