#ay

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#congress #day #terrible #worse

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#asleep #away #childish #come #day

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#be happy #good #happy #here #make

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#follow #insane #man #new #old

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#forgives #god #i #me #owe

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home. ↗

— Beatrice Sparks

#running-away-from-problems #home

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#been #cash #church #down #heaven

The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#give #liberty #more #will #you

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#kind #mystic #nature #observer #prayer