"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."

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Source : May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

May Sarton

#Life Quotes #Patience Quotes #Nature Quotes

“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”
“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.”
“As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.”

Source : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.49
“I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life,”

Source : "Retired Bishop Gene Robinson On Being Gay And Loving God". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.
“I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldnâ€™t find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.”

Source : "The Wild Girls".
“If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.”
“We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.”

Source : John Michael Talbot (1991). “Blessings: Reflections on the Beatitudes”, Crossroad Publishing Company
“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future,”

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