"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."

-- Charles Ives

#Horse Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.”
“Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.”
“Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.”
“And then the dear Lord will take us to the new earth, surrounded by the new Heaven, and the holy New Jerusalem will come down from God out of Heaven. Then we will have an end of pain and sorrow and crying and death. All these, thank God, will be forever done! And then God Himself will wipe away our tears.”
“There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.”

Source : Charles Churchill, James Hannay (1866). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay”, p.229
“Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.”

Source : Chris d'Lacey (2011). “Icefire”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.
“Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.”

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