"A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone."

-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Light Quotes #Joy Quotes #Promise Quotes

“My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!”
“We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.99, Penguin UK
“It really is true the Lord's way is to love the sinner while condemning the sin. That is to say we continue to open our homes and our hearts and our arms to our children, but that need not be with approval of their lifestyle. Neither does it mean we need to be constantly telling them that their lifestyle is inappropriate. An even bigger error is now to become defensive of the child, because that neither helps the child nor helps the parent. That course of action, which experience teaches, is almost certainly to lead both away from the Lord's way.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.”
“We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech”
“In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]”
“And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.”

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