"autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror."

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Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

Elizabeth Goudge

#Spring Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Saint Quotes

“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”
“Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.”

Source : Song: Fireflies, Album: Daylight
“I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.”
“Yet there are those who wonder. There are those who have gentle stirrings. And there are those who have stepped upon the beautiful threshold of awareness - all on the verge of perceiving that which there is to see. To these ones, I say, open your exquisite senses. Look with fine clarity into that which is beyond and beneath, within and without. In these coming critical times, listen to and heed the directives of your spirits that retain the high wisdom you are just now perceiving.”
“I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.”
“In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.”

Source : Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.70, Penguin
“A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.”
“Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.”

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