"I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error."

-- Sara Bonnett Stein

#Flower Quotes #Garden Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1980). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”
“I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.”

Source : ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.
“Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.”
“I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.”

Source : Francis William Newman (1850). “Phases of Faith; or, passages from the history of my creed”, p.1
“O reputation! dearer far than life.”
“I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.”
“[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.”

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