Overlander Hk Quotes & Sayings

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth.. — Albert Pike

Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left ... They were everything. Everything was there, in them ... Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people. — Toni Morrison

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. — Frederick William Faber

The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public. — Charles Spurgeon

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda

I am but an architectural composer. — Alexander Jackson Davis

I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It's the least you can do, really, as a polite guest. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer. — G.K. Chesterton

Truth: sometimes a murderer cannot be found. Truth: sometimes your children are taken and you are left behind. Truth: poverty is a prison. Truth: disease and age come to us all. — Claire North

A farmhouse has a way of feeling both timeless and impermanent without ever committing to either side. — John Darnielle

The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons. — P.G. Wodehouse

Often the greatest challenge of the animal welfare movement is to remind people of the things they already know to be true-that to mistreat any animal is beneath us, that cruelty of any kind is dishonorable and inexcusable, and that we all have duties of kindness and self-restraint in the treatment of our fellow creatures. — Wayne Pacelle

The only thing that comes for sure is death, colonel — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past. — Jack Kornfield