"And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous."

-- Rumi

#Winter Quotes #Garden Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.”

Source : "Stella Vespertina". Book by Georges Rouault, 1947.
“Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.”
“What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.”
“Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.”
“Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

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