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“But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and ...

"One kind thing is the seed from which a great goodness grows. It is not hope we hold to, Niece. It is belief in the power of that grow...

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.” – Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), from  Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks...

“ “But I no longer want to edit my behavior, twisting myself up like a pretzel.“  “You won't ,” she assured me. "Now that you'v...

“ If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it... ” -   L.M. Montgomery ...

Best news line today:  " Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler... has died . He was 95...The former middleweight champion died Tues...

Meadowlarks provide  the quintessential birdsong  of spring; wild roses supply  its fragrance. 

" The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."  - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)...

" The way God squandered Himself had always hurt her; and annoyed her too... Well, of all the spendthrifts , she would think and then...

"I  try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." -  Charlotte Bronte   (1816-1855)

" Don’t ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have co...

" Wild roses are fairest,  and nature a better gardener than art."  -  Louisa May Alcott ,  A Long Fatal Love Chase

" You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets." -   L.M. ...

" Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?" -  L.M. Montgomery ,  Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1...

" Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold." - John Muir

I was drawn to the shooting-starness of this lovely streambank wildflower, but it turns out it's actually a relative of the potato pl...

" The careful insect 'midst his works I view,  Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures load hi...

"Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs." - Sebastian Faulks , Engleby

"I want to start my day with the earnestness of the morning glory, the way it's blossoms open with the sunrise, ready to shine no...

"...Suddenly you flare in my sight, a wild rose looming at the edge of thicket, grace and light where yesterday was only sha...