"This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders."

-- Sarah Orne Jewett

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Flower Quotes

“All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.”
“Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.”
“I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland”
“I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.”
“What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.”

Source : Karl Barth (2009). “Insights: Karl Barth's Reflections on the Life of Faith”, p.30, Westminster John Knox Press
“You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority.”
“Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.”
“You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.”

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