"Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious."

-- Andrew Jackson Downing

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“A moment with Jesus changed everything.”

Source : Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc
“True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Jan 21, 2009
“Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.”
“It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.”

Source : "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
“Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to social progress. Progress is work. People need to build things and sacrifice and have a harder life for things to get better. On its own, I don't think even the most brilliant critique stimulates that kind of effort as well as an appealing vision of the future.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.”
“The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.”

Source : Source: www.choprafoundation.org
“There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.”

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