Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. .… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ...… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image