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Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

Faith works (expresses itself) through love (Galatians 5: 6).

You may feel there are certain people you simply cannot love because of how they have hurt you or because they still may be abusive and being around them would not be safe for you. You can love everyone but that doesn't necessarily mean that you need to spend time in their presence. Pray for people, don't speak unkindly about them, but always remember that you have a right to safe relationships.

Prayer should always be our first line of defense against any problem we face.

Love is the energy of life.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic,magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.

'It's no good asking her. She knows everything, but she never tells,' said Jane.

Mary Poppins smiled, a secret, I-know-better-than-you sort of smile, all to herself.

Academics who've studied Rogers's work often marvel at how young children calm down, pay attention, and learn so much from this television production-- and how they remain calm and centered for some time after. ...Rogers himself put great care into the pacing of the program to help children slow down and steady themselves.

Television appalled and attracted him at the same time. He understood the extraordinary power of the medium, even as others saw it as merely a diversion or minor entertainment. And he also understood its potential for education, perhaps more fully than anyone else at the time. But even though he had the foresight to see its potential, he was also sickened by the crass, low grade humor of the television he saw.

Be spontaneous with your prayers. Be like a child and don't worry about the words. ... God and the angels listen to your heart and they answer prayers in time-- though we may not realize exactly what we asked for.

Life is a miracle all around us, every day.

Love, in and of itself, is a miracle.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are very dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

I will take the Ring', he said 'though I do not know the way.

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise and all courses may run ill.

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.

Al Alvarez called her a "genius" and claimed that her recent poetry "represents a totally new breakthrough in modern verse, and establishes her as the most gifted woman poet of our time .... The loss to literature is inestimable."