"At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth."

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Source : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

Alan Seeger

#Joy Quotes #Earth Quotes #Golden Quotes

“I'm confused. Really, really confused.”
“The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.”
“He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.”

Source : "He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower". "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 282, 1895.
“As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.”
“When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.”
“Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.Â The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.Â What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.Â Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.Â Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.Â We are its servants.”
“Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.”
“The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.”

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