"Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?"

-- May Sarton

#Strength Quotes #Happiness Quotes #People Quotes

“The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.”

Source : Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
“YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.”

Source : Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.20, Writer's Digest Books
“If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.”
“When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.”

Source : "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.
“Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.”
“We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.”
“The life of music is bigger than all of us.”
“Dreams, books, are each a world.”

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