"There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun."

-- Patricia A. McKillip

#Long Quotes #Sunflower Quotes #Golden Quotes

“I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.”
“Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.”
“There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.”
“I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.”
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
“Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.”
“Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.”

Source : Twitter post from May 20, 2015
“The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.”

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