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Everly
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"As I dusted I thought. This is The Life (The Roast Beef Life.) Truth and reality. Pure grief to wash away the deceitful intentions. Honest arguing. It was painful but it broke us down to size and made us fit a little better...side by side. We finished it together in the end. Nothing hidden...no drama. I knew that living "real" included true pain when I chose this life."
-Clickety-Clack
-Clickety-Clack
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”- Laura Ingalls Wilder
"I don't want the simulated world; I want to see and hear and feel and know how to live in the real one."
Titmoss of fabricandflowers.blogspot.com
Titmoss of fabricandflowers.blogspot.com
"Wherever you are, be all there."
Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot
"If we had no Winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -Anne Bradstreet
"Home is the grandest of all institutions." -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."- Philippians 4:8
"Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad."
-J. M. Barrie (on fairies)
-J. M. Barrie (on fairies)
"Learn to like what doesn’t cost too much.
Learn to like reading, conversation, music.
Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.
Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.
Learn to like people, even though some of them may be different from you.
Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction of doing your job as well as it can be done.
Learn to like the songs of birds, the companionship of dogs.
Learn to like gardening, puttering around the house, and fixing things.
Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.
Learn to keep your wants simple, and refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others."
-Lowell B. Bennion
Learn to like reading, conversation, music.
Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.
Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.
Learn to like people, even though some of them may be different from you.
Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction of doing your job as well as it can be done.
Learn to like the songs of birds, the companionship of dogs.
Learn to like gardening, puttering around the house, and fixing things.
Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.
Learn to keep your wants simple, and refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others."
-Lowell B. Bennion
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-E. M. Forster
-E. M. Forster
Hardy:
1.capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
2.
(of plants) able to withstand the cold of winter in the open air.
3.
requiring great physical courage, vigor, or endurance: the hardiest sports.
4.
bold or daring; courageous: hardy soldiers.
Hearty:
1.warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
2.
genuine; sincere; heartfelt: hearty approval; hearty dislike.
3.
completely devoted; wholehearted: hearty support.
4.
exuberant; unrestrained: hearty laughter.
5.
violent; forceful: a hearty push; a hearty kick.
6.
physically vigorous; strong and well: hale and hearty.
7.
substantial; abundant; nourishing: a hearty meal.
8.
enjoying or requiring abundant food: a hearty appetite.
9.
(of soil) fertile.
1.capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
2.
(of plants) able to withstand the cold of winter in the open air.
3.
requiring great physical courage, vigor, or endurance: the hardiest sports.
4.
bold or daring; courageous: hardy soldiers.
Hearty:
1.warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
2.
genuine; sincere; heartfelt: hearty approval; hearty dislike.
3.
completely devoted; wholehearted: hearty support.
4.
exuberant; unrestrained: hearty laughter.
5.
violent; forceful: a hearty push; a hearty kick.
6.
physically vigorous; strong and well: hale and hearty.
7.
substantial; abundant; nourishing: a hearty meal.
8.
enjoying or requiring abundant food: a hearty appetite.
9.
(of soil) fertile.
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful implanted in the human soul.” -Johann Wolfgang Goeth
"That is the point. Let your life be solid hardwood, lasting and true, painted with color and flowers and simple pleasures, for sometimes those pleasures will prove to be scarce and your chair must still be strong for resting in."
-Clickety-Clack
-Clickety-Clack
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” -Frank Loyd Wright
"The word 'happiness' would lose is meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
-Carl Gustav Jung
-Carl Gustav Jung
"...All this action, all this wonderful chaos! Vibrant smiles and booming laughs from tiny people as they jump off the bed and leap onto a sibling, tell a joke, a story, relate last night's dream, pull a shirt up to their arms and laugh at how they've grown."
-Clickety-Clack
-Clickety-Clack
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
-Jim Rohn
-Jim Rohn
"To be sincere is to be in reality what one appears to be: not feigned; not assumed; genuine, real, and true. How much value we all place upon sincerity!"
-Beautiful Girlhood
-Beautiful Girlhood
She halted under the Watching Pine to gloat over Silver Bush, all her love for it glowing like a rose in her face. It had never looked so beautiful and beloved. How nice to see the smoke curling up from its chimney! How jolly and comfortable the fat, bursting old barns looked, where hundreds of kittens yet unborn would frisk! The wind was singing everywhere in the trees. Over her was a soft, deep, loving sky. Every field she looked on was a friend. The asters along the path were letters of the poem in her heart. She seemed to move and breathe in a trance of happiness. She was a reed in a moonlit pool...she was a wind in a wild garden..she was the stars and the lights of home...
(From L. M. Montgomery's "Pat of Silver Bush")
(From L. M. Montgomery's "Pat of Silver Bush")
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
-Lord Alfred Tennyson
-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
John 15:13
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."
-Snowflake Bentley
-Snowflake Bentley
"The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing." -C.S. Lewis "The Weight of Glory"
1 comment:
Everly,
I love all the quotes on this blog! Excellent!
Its so good to hear from you! We've been back from Haiti for just over a year now. We spent 7 months there in all. It was quite the adventure!
There were some things that were wonderful and some things that were very hard. (there was slight issues with the mission we were with. But you know how it is in organizations like that. Someone always gets greedy! Its terrible but very prevalent.)
But other than that- we simply finished the work we went down to do and then came home!
How are things with you? How are your siblings doing?
If you want to email-- natashasiegrist at hotmail dot com
Blessings!
Natasha
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