#midst

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#blessed be #brings #childhood #down #heaven

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#friendship #grows #pond #rock #share

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? ↗

— Lord Byron

#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#campaign #cannot #debate #defense #issues

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#life #life is a #like #lived #logical

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#alive #learn #midst #must #repose

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#anything #blackest #end #endure #last

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#behavior #caught #early #first #hardship