Category: Quotes
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The Past is Never Dead
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.” William Faulkner
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Is it snowing where you are?
All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It’s late afternoon – the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write…
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain
Everything you love today will be one day thrown off, cast in a heap, stolen or forgotten. You may write your mementos into a will, put your signature upon books you’ve written, and, in the case of your very body, have portraits done to capture who you once appeared to be. As a man came…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension, free and self-determined beyond all proof. Where reason is indignant, where our nature rebels, where our…
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Tolkien: Creating Middle-earth
On Creating Middle-earth: “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming ‘sub-creator’ and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection…
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“In March 1822, as the Greek revolt gathered strength on the mainland, several hundred armed Greeks from the neighbouring island of Samos landed in Chios. They attacked the Turks, who retreated to the citadel. Many islanders also decided to join the revolution.[2] However, the vast majority of the population had by all accounts done nothing…
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ― Anaïs Nin
Just some fun LINKS: CIVIL WAR BRO-MANCE PHOTOS CIVIL WAR COUPLES PHOTOS TWO CHILDREN OF THE US CIVIL WAR STILL RECEIVING PENSIONS (2013)
Author Adrienne Morris 