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“I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.”

Want Faces Water Laughing Blue Paint Golden Burning Sunshine Blue Water

Author:Frederick Varley

“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.”

Firsts Heart Mean Left Term Water Results Trouble Sky Regret Difficulty Disappointment Burning Fewer Smooth Presidency

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.”

Ifs Heart Turns Waiting Water Silence Fire Violence Creation Terrible Rings Forests Burning Instant Lakes Pool Fearful Flash Unafraid Burning Heart

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.”

Ifs Needs Mean House Water Fire Burning Thrown Nonviolence Buckets

Author:Dorothy Cotton

“We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”

“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”

Persons Reason Evil Water Goes On Disease Judgment Criticism Weak Increase Caught Oil Checks Burning Useless Vain Prose Opposition Thrown Mania Obstinate Dunces Reproof

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.”

People Feels Hands Pain Water Paper Hot Senses Burning Touched Paper Money

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.”