amor moffat

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. ~W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936



Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee



You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, The Gods, 1872



Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion. ~The Talmud



He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. ~James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604



You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon



What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. ~Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You



If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Author Unknown



Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. ~Graham Greene



Quote A: �It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.� ~Jessamyn West



Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949



The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude



A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ~Christopher Morley, Human Being



Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot



The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~Alan Gregg



However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. ~Henry David Thoreau



In your patience possess ye your souls. ~Luke 21:19