“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.” IfsWorldLoveOrderLeftLove IsLaughingDoorsDangerousThanksGiverGave UpCoffinsLatchesLaugh Love Author:William Sloane Coffin
“Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.” WorldGivingSpiritualPowerfulPracticeGreaterDoorsKeysAvailableThanksMost PowerfulParticipationSpiritual PracticeConnectedness Author:David Spangler
“You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front door, weighed down by hundreds of pounds of concealed vandalism supplies, including enough raw eggs to feed Somalia for decades. By morning, thanks to our efforts, the entire neighborhood would be covered with a layer of congealed shaving cream and toilet paper that, around certain unpopular neighbors' homes, was hundreds of feet thick. This is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed.” EnoughHomeWould BeKidsNightCertainFunParentEffortMorningDoorsFeetFrontsMountainPaperIncludingDecadesNeighborThanksHaving FunNeighborhoodPoundsEggsCoveredThickLayersCreamHalloweenToiletsConcealedSuppliesFront DoorsShavingToilet PaperSomaliaVandalismHalloween NightShaving Cream Author:Dave Barry
“Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door” DoneWalksDoorsGayThanksGay MarriageThank You For Everything Author:Portia de Rossi
“If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.” IfsThinkingLongHas BeensStillsAmericaGuyBlackWhiteAttentionHellDoorsMusicianLifetimeCaughtBritishOpeningThanksPay AttentionOpened Doors Author:B. B. King
“Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsLongReasonHappensHateTurnsNextDoorsTreeFeetEvolutionGlassesFlyingScalesThanksHeightStayingMudFeathersTurtlesTiltBoogieFeet Off The Ground Author:Christopher Moore