"Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Home Quotes #Joy Quotes #Should Quotes

“Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.”
“How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.”
“The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.13, Counterpoint Press
“Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.”
“Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.”
“The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in gravity. And so he started the Babson Institute in New Boston, New Hampshire, which then moved to Gloucester. Each year they have a competition of one thousand dollars for one thousand words of an essay on gravity. That's the way they do it.”
“My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.”
“I blundered into writing.”

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