Inspiring Pastoral Quotes & Sayings

Write from Beyond what you know. From the authority of your senses. -author of Meditations in Green — Steven Wright

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world. — Stephen Covey

The part of the Lake District that Beatrix Potter chose as her own was not only physically beautiful, it was a place in which she felt emotionally rooted as a descendant of hard-working north-country folk. The predictable routines of farm life appealed to her. There was a realism in the countryside that nurtured a deep connection. The scale of the villages was manageable. Yet the vast desolateness of the surrounding fells was awe-inspiring. It was mysterious, but easily imbued with fantasy and tamed by imagination. The sheltered lakes and fertile valleys satisfied her love of the pastoral. The hill farms and the sheep on the high fells demanded accountability. There was a longing in Beatrix Potter for association with permanence: to find a place where time moved slowly, where places remained much as she remembered them from season to season and from year to year. — Linda Lear

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As you walk in life's path, there is joy, sorrow, challenge, and change. You will have confrontation, so you must be ready to handle whatever comes your way. — Saint Matthew's Churches

I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of souls. — Fernando Pessoa

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.K. Chesterton