"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"

-- Rainbow Rowell

#Autumn Quotes #Nurse Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act.”
“I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manquÃ©s â€” sucha horrible joke. I canâ€™t imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I canâ€™t imagine anything more valuableto do.”
“Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.”
“The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.”
“Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.”
“...Love isn’t saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat”
“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of lawâ€”a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

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