"[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily."

-- Izaak Walton

#Gratitude Quotes #Flower Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“No-one is ever betrayed by true love.”
“I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.”
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.”
“It's just a figment of the imagination.”
“The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!”

Source : Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”
“I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.”
“She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.48

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