"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Good Morning Quotes #Nature Quotes #Good Day Quotes

“When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!”
“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”

Source : Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461
“I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.”
“God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal. living in a world of inflexible natural laws. The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.”

Source : Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Pan Macmillan
“Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.”
“The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.”
“The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.”
“For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.”

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