"To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Fall Quotes #Desire Quotes #World Quotes

“If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?”
“The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest. ...Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish.”
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

Source : Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69
“Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.”
“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”
“Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego...”
“Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.”
“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, â€œthe more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”

Source : "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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