"We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul."

-- Thomas Moore

#Blessing Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.”
“I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.”
“All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.174, London, R. Bentley
“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.”
“A beautiful problem is no joke!”
“Success isnâ€™t something that happens overnight: itâ€™s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way to do this is to have the right people working with you - not for you, but with you. I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others.”
“I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.”

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