“I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.” ~L.M. Montgomery- ‘Anne of the Island’
…Ogden Nash
November Bloom - Amanda Acker , 2023.
Australian, b. 1982 -
Oil on muslin covered panel , 12 x 9 in.
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
- Clara Lucas Balfour
“[R]evolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frank Cheyne Pape
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
-2 Corinthians 4:8
✒️ There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Saul Bellow,More Die of Heartbreak (via lordgarrett)
Via David Warren
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Henry van Dyke
“The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.”
— Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) American economic journalist
