"The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day."

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Source : Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.119

Henry Vaughan

#Christmas Quotes #Light Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?”
“Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.”
“You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
“All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.”
“I have gone into the waste lonely places”
“Art is only abstract when you look the other way.”

Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
“The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.”
“God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.”

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