“Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes. —Charles Edward Jerningham”
― 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom
― 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom
“The Walrus and the Carpenter By Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)”
― The Best of Poetry: Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn: In Two Hundred Poems
― The Best of Poetry: Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn: In Two Hundred Poems
“She was always teaching. "When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give." I was a devoted student, learning from her up to the moment of our very last conversation, on the Sunday before she died.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“It is with religion as with marriage. A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he is asked, what he thinks of the institution of marriage, and of the right relations of the sexes. 'I should have much to say,' he might reply, 'if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and all question is closed for me.”
― Emerson: The Ultimate Collection
― Emerson: The Ultimate Collection
“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But … the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?” —Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom
― 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom
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