"Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift."

-- Marlene van Niekerk

#Tree Quotes #Important Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.”
“A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
“Change, like healing, takes time.”
“Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.”
“I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To Pay”
“You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.221, MIRA
“It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?”

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