Books Butterfly Reviews Quotes & Sayings

The universe is full of doors. — Frank Herbert

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. — Tennessee Williams

With our instinct we can go everywhere, but with our intelligence we will get there. — Jan Jansen

Okay, he thinks, perhaps it's time for everybody to move on; nothing lasts forever, it's part of the physics of friendships, alliances, whatever it might be they perpetrated for a while among themselves. — Paul Russell

A time will come when the devil will require repayment for all he has given — Sunday Adelaja

Normal and together, an impossible combination for us in the regular, real world. — Ainslie Hogarth

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes. — Socrates

Landscape ... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in. — Robert Macfarlane

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling. — Ravi Zacharias

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not! — Laura E. Richards

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do. — Hunter Lovins

The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude. — Rebecca Pippert