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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Robert Frost

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― Robert Frost

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
― Robert Frost

“I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.”
― Robert Frost, Birches

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
― Robert Frost

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
― Robert Frost

“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Only fools want to be great.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.”
― A. W. Tozer

“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
― A. W. Tozer

“Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.”
― A. W. Tozer

“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”
― A. W. Tozer

“What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”
― Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ