"The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all."

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Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

Anzia Yezierska

#Bird Quotes #Fruit Quotes #Flight Quotes

“As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.”
“Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.”
“Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.”
“I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.”
“God was in Christ, reconciling the world.”

Source : Lamin Sanneh (2003). “Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West”, p.71, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.”
“Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.”
“Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.”

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