“But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantMindStoriesHandsEarthLastsWaterChanceWalksBehindsKnow HowJourneyReadyEdgesCornersSavedBloodyFragmentsDump Author:Tana French
“I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.” WantedEarthReadyShapesDearVolumeAbstractionJuiceNot ReadyDensity Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
“Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.” WayEarthSituationAcceptingLandPossibilityHumilityReadyCapableRainSilentRefuseCorruptionSeedsSunshineMiraculousRichnessTransformingNew PossibilitiesCreativeness Author:Anthony of Sourozh
“People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.” PeopleKnowsMadeEarthHeavenPeaceReadyExpecting Book:Selections from Writings Source: Selections from Writings
“I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.” GivingEndsRealityEarthNextVisionPlanetsReadyBalanceSafeVoteBlueSlaveryGreenErasFuelLeapFossilsEmergingFossil FuelAbolishing Slavery Author:Elizabeth May
“In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.” MindLittlesEarthGrowthYouthReadySpringBladesPierceSpring Time Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.” SaidEarthSpiritSpiritualityNamesEffectsReadyMastersArgumentRaisesPracticalsHeightOffenseSkepticDown To Earth Author:Anthony de Mello