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“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.”

Looks Made Said Easy Stones Chips Statues

Author:Michelangelo

“I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”

Want Years Heart Whole Wanted Next Easy Goes On Stones Mindset Bless Rolling Touring Rolling Stones Ruts Old Things Same Old Thing

Author:Paul Weller

“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”

Men Giving Should May Home Beautiful Easy Technology Fit Offers Stones Wings Spots Dust Prisoner Transition Toil Worms Bricks Pilgrimage Timber

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Song Easy Christ Nature Rocks Wind Stones And Love Wave Best Things Dawn Surprising Rolling Thunder Fury Right Place Brooks Whispering Cattle Tempest

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.”

Hands Force Easy Draws Stones Thrown Recalls

Author:Menander

“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.”

Believe Suffering I Believe Easy Christ Water Built All Things Stones Connections Patterns Redemption Narrative Alienation All Things New

Author:Shauna Niequist

“The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.”

Want Moments Would Be Artist Easy Concepts Stones Albums Pops Closest Rolling Great Music Rolling Stones Fray

Author:Bono

“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems

“For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.”

“My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone”

Said Mother Easy Natural Kissing Stones Lips Dear Darling Dear Mother

Book:How to (Un)cage a Girl

Source: How to (Un)cage a Girl

“Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.”

“Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

Ifs Made States Easy Alive Stones I'm Alive Bell Jar

Book:Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

Source: Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

“Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your sannyas and then the temple can be raised very easily. It is easy to raise the temple once the foundation is rightly put. This is the foundation stone: remember that existence loves you, cares about you, is concerned about you; that you are not alienated, that you are not a stranger, that you are part of this great symphony, this orchestra, this celebration that goes on and on and knows no ending.”

Knows Mean Care Remember Easy Existence Love You Goes On Concerned Stones Raises Foundation Raised Stranger Temples Celebration Indifferent Orchestra Symphony Care For You

Author:Rajneesh