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“We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.”

Ifs Happens Able Earth Spirit Perfect Forget Events Encouragement This Life

Author:Lynn Andrews

“So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.”

Life Inspirational Looks Reason Earth Pain Forget Struggle Inspirational Life Symbols Passages Calendars Passage Of Time

Book:Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews

Source: Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews

“Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars.”

Use Eye Earth Stars Forget Let Me Lifts

Author:Max Ehrmann

“All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.”

Home Earth Remember Forget Subjects Mankind Broken Bones Japan Consent Chill Mantras Prompts Calmer Broken Homes Broken Bone

Author:Simon Winchester

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.”

Should Reason Use Earth Forget Disease Sick Heal Cures Granted Never Forget Save A Life

Book:Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House

Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House

“What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.”

World Light Earth Spirit Simple Forget Pleasure Morning Blood Rocks Demand Spring Ancient Delight Deny Graves Noise Evening Traffic Fog Flowering Morning Light

Author:Stephen Spender

“When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.”

May Earth Heaven Forget Comparison Despise Scorn Heaven And Earth Present Life

Author:John Calvin

“One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!”

Thinking Earth Lasts Forget Plans Killing Finals Torment Caution One Word Dismayed

Book:Lord Foul's Bane

Source: Lord Foul's Bane

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.”

“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.”

Way Earth Faces Forget Failing Feet Mountain Harmony Spread Wide Lovely Thee Landscape Majesty Weariness Steep Rocky Mountain

Author:William C. Bryant

“This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.”

Knows Earth Lost Forget Grace Silent Admire My Sister Daring Stunned

Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

“Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.”

Thinking Mean Made Eye Earth Remember Father Memories Forget Wonder Worst Dad Eating Shadow Cooks Her Eyes Aunt Lambs Walnuts

Author:Diana Abu-Jaber