"The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all."

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Source : Edith Nesbit, “Child's Song In Spring”

E. Nesbit

#I Love Him Quotes #Cities Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.”

Source : John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.1, Ballantine Books
“Nothing is so weakening as regret.”
“If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.”
“Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.”
“If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.”

Source : "A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community". Book by Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1995.
“Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.”
“Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?”

Source : Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.11, Regent College Publishing
“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an actâ€¦ a doing rather than a being.”

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