"There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days"

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Source : Song: Passing Afternoon, Album: Our Endless Numbered Days, 2004

Iron & Wine

#Endless Quotes #Numbered Days Quotes

“Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.”
“Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.”
“Heaven is a house with porch lights.”
“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.”
“Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.”
“If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?”
“A disruption of the circadian cycleâ€”the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday lifeâ€”seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each dayâ€™s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.”
“If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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