“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
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