"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

-- Eleanora Duse

#Summer Quotes #Nature Quotes #Moving Quotes

“The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.”

Source : Kaza Kingsley (2010). “The Three Furies”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.”
“Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. Itâ€™s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, Iâ€™d know it was something true. Now Iâ€™m trying to dig deeper. I didnâ€™t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but Iâ€™m having a hard time with it.”
“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

Source : Rupert Brooke (2007). “1914 & Other Poems”, p.37, Jeremy Mills Publishing
“In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.”
“The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.”
“When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.”
“For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.”

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