"The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle."

-- Libba Bray

#Fall Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Blow Quotes

“You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom”
“I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.”
“I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.”
“On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.”

Source : Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.
“We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.”
“Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.”
“we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Source : Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC
“Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.”

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