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[JohnT]

“Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion.
Merton wrote more than 50 books in a period of 27 years, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism.

[Teri]

No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds... ~G. K. Chesterton

[Teri]

Happiness doesn’t always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow. ~Richelle E. Goodrich

[JohnT]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

― Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.

[JohnT]

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

― Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner (born 1922) is an American comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, and publisher whose career spans seven decades.

[Teri]

The brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple... ~L. M. Montgomery

[JohnT]

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

― Craig Claiborne (1920 - 2000)
Craig Claiborne was an American restaurant critic, food journalist and author. He was a long-time food editor and restaurant critic for The New York Times.

[Teri]

But, do you know it hadn’t occurred to me that a man’s beard was really part of him. It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. ~D. H. Lawrence

[Teri]

Moustaches resemble a problem of geometry worked on the cheek with a piece of charcoal. ~Richard Doe

[Teri]

Wounds heal and become scars. But scars grow with us. ~Stanisław J. Lec

[Teri]

Don’t try to have time for reading first — read first and think up excuses for it afterwards. ~Althea Warren

[Teri]

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! ~Henry Ward Beecher

[JohnT]

“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”

― Irving Berlin

[Teri]

She had been christened quite differently, but everybody called her Scholastica, because she always had her little nose in a book. ~Louis de Wohl

[Teri]

Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.” ~George R.R. Martin