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rocks
«Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.»
«Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.»
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
| Keywords:
compassionate, extended, plants, rivers, rocks, The Story
«If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Beauty,
Life
| Keywords:
Day to Day, dirt, Hard rock, pattern, planets, rocks, whole thing
«God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.»
Author: George MacDonald
| Keywords:
cloud, desired, electricity, feeblest, haven, havens, look upon, resource, rocks, storms, The Rocks, unfinished
«Gifts burst rocks»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
burst, rocks
«Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.»
«I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.»
«If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.»