"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing â€” to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from â€” my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. Itâ€™s ridiculous.”

Source : Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.116, Spectra
“I've been writing full-time since I was 23,”
“The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.”
“Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.”
“No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.”
“I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to love their organizations. We need that level of commitment ... Yet organizations have done very little to deserve that kind of staying-power.”
“Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

Source : 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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