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“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

Source: Mere Christianity

“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”

Beautiful Moving Rooms Principles Five Habit Summer Garden Tables Clean Mess Virgins Trash Unbearable Summer Days Days Like This

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!”

May Stills Shows Light Rooms Sun Grace Air Fashion Hair Garden Rose Clouds Soil Leafs Midnight Dew Hue

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”

Ifs Long Felt Space Rooms Wonder Flower Sitting Garden Japan Boots Blooming Hovering Blooming Flower Dragonflies

Author:Mark Tobey

“Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.”

Made Play Facts Rooms Class Practice Four Fields Building Taught Source Wall Garden Direct Obvious Rational Museums Application Workshops Nursery Formality Four Walls

Author:Robert Owen

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.”

Wells Looks May Country Reality Joy Dark Rooms Forever Events Summer Garden Bases Silent Delight Backgrounds Locals Remembered Association Flood Distress Sunny Lanes Recollection Great Joy

Author:Washington Irving

“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.”

Sometimes Whole Opportunity House Rooms Views Design Building Garden Architecture Dramatic Epic Maintaining Exhibits Subordination

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.”

Way Rooms Cities Poverty Office Garden Governors Yards Garbage Palaces Living Room Mayors Dining Dining Rooms Favelas

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.”

Writing Humans Bits Human Beings Pleasure Rooms Stupid Creating Garden Piano Tunes Digital Sheer Organisms Recipes Inventing Composing Chili

Author:Gary Hamel

“Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.”

Life Stills Play Seems Faces Night Rooms Shadow Garden Tricks Gravel New Faces

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.”

Trying Looks Remember Moving Rooms Middle Paper Garden Window Embrace Staring Pace Papers Fingertips

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.”

Want Moments Hate Walks Rooms Records Garden Collections That Moment Wow

Author:Erol Alkan

“I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.”

Rooms Meditation Yoga Garden Rose Amethyst Quartz

Author:Miranda Kerr

“Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.”

Knows Artist Water Rooms Garden Gallery Lilies Dentist Dorms Monet Dorm Rooms Water Lily

Author:Ari Shapiro

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

“I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”

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Book:The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

“We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.”

Littles Bigs Form Order Sound Rooms Effects Color Gains Garden Composure Furnishings

Author:Robert Frost

“at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.”

Knows Needs Firsts Lasts Certain Rooms Particular Mountain Ocean Garden Chaos Corners Desert Grandmother Shade Portraits Curtains Hurricanes Skulls Dinosaurs Great Grandmother

Book:Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975

“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”

Source: The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems

“Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.”

Writing Book Dream Rooms Plans Air Building Garden Library Dear Castles Doing Nothing Standstill Happy Times Castles In The Air Building Castles In The Air

Book:Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden

“listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page.”

Years Moments Running Night Next Rooms Return Pages Shadow Rain Garden Weight Lightning Restless Inventor Footsteps Listen To Me Grove Another Time Adrift Terrace

Author:Octavio Paz

“What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables.” “Hmmm … that’s a lovely answer,~ But isn’t love what you feel when you can’t see me?” “Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness.”

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.”

Should Two Book Light Rooms Pages Shadow Garden Beach Electric Lit Electric Light

Author:Marguerite Duras

“A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.”

Different Rooms Struggle Flower Garden Rose Strive Impress

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.”

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Book:At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

Source: At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.”

Philosophy Character Used Rooms Company Morning Study Bed Concerned Garden Tables Educational Chiefs Former Evening Judgement Privileged Good Judgement

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.”

“But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.”

Want Believe I Believe Rooms Family Conflict Garden Tables Pool Scrapbooking Pool Table

Author:Brad Garrett

“When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.”

Ideas Used Left Felt Rooms Saws Impossible Garden Horrible Beach Void Saturday Your Room

Author:Camille Claudel

“Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.”

Way Children Dream Able Together Beautiful House Rooms Alive Design Garden Our Children Our Family Your Children Your Room Terrace

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

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