"The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity."

-- Joan D. Chittister

#Yield Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, SeÃ±or Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ***** covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.”
“Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens”
“It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.”
“Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr
“I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.”
“As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.”
“Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.”
“Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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