"Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!"

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Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.91, Random House

Eleanor Farjeon

#Morning Quotes #Spring Quotes #Elation Quotes

“Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.”
“None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.”
“Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work”
“The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.”
“If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.”
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”
“I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.”
“There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.”

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