"Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution."

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Source : John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.56, The Minerva Group, Inc.

John Burroughs

#Mind Quotes #Resolution Quotes

“Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.”

Source : "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
“If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.”
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say - touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.”
“Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.”
“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.”
“I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.”
“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.”

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