"I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen."

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Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.149, Vintage

Terry Tempest Williams

#Prayer Quotes #Bird Quotes #Praying Quotes

“I'm pretty good with languages.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
“Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for”
“Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!”

Source : Heloise (1963). “Heloise's Kitchen Hints”
“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan
“You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.”
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”
“Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.”

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