"The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring."

Source : Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.1792, e-artnow

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.
“There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.”
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor â€” such is my idea of happiness.”
“How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.”
“Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.”
“So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.”
“Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.”

Source : "Chip Kidd Tells TED About The Essence Of Great Book Cover Design", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.
“Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.”

Source : Georges Rodenbach (1903). “Bruges-la-morte: A Romance”

"The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring."

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