Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Thoughts to Inspire

A few thoughts on the First Day of Spring:
Mock Orange


Life is what we are alive to
It is not length, but breadth.
To be alive only to appetite,
pleasure, pride, money-making,
and not to goodness, kindness,
purity, love, history, poetry,
music, flowers, stars, God
and eternal hope is to be all but dead.
   ---Martha D. Babcock


The poor man is not he
who is without a cent,
but he who is without a dream.
---Harry Kemp


So long as enthusiasm lasts,
so long is youth still with us.
---David Starr Jordan

Growing old is no more than
a bad habit, which a busy man
has no time to form.
---Andre Maurois

Reverance for life -- from ants to men.
---Unknown

New Dawn Rose


Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
God's World
--Edna St. Vincent Millay

5 comments:

  1. I can't believe the size of that rose bush. How old is it?
    Thanks for the recipe. I'm going to buy some basil so I can try it. I don't think I can wait until mine grows.

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    1. It WAS about 16 years old. It's gone now. I posted about it tonight. Thanks for giving me the idea for today's post! :)

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  2. How many daisies can you count on your lawn?
    When you can count twelve daisies,
    Spring has come.

    Eleanor Farjeon. Ida

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    1. That is cute! I've never heard that one. Thanks for sharing it!

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  3. Love the thoughts. I feel so special to have been able to enjoy this beautiful rose bush for many years. I hope we have another one someday.

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