#th

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#life

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#silence #life

If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before breakfast, and for which no neat and handy formula is provided in the Parents' Manual…Later in life, however, the problem of time and the problem of evil become desperately urgent, and it is useless to tell us to run away and play and that we shall understand when we are older. The world has grown hoary, and the questions are still unanswered. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#theology #life

I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

Life eats life to live. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eats #life #literature #literature-quotes

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally. ↗

— John Grisham

#fault #going #had #i #lawyer

I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive. ↗

— Jason Gray

#living-life-to-the-fullest #living-now #love #passion #life

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#life

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#deadly #difference #enjoy #fun #games

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#encourage #fact #invest #think #life