81 Quotes About Thoughtfulness

I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of church bells ringing for service, when I pass a church door without going in, but because the men sang the hymn only when they were out of spirits and considered our position desperate. It seemed as though they would remind me that defeat awaited me, and that this time I had aimed too high.

she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.

The act of writing is not too dissimilar from praying - it's contemplating over a blank page that's another abyss urging response!

When you're down, nobody is going to encourage you like you.

She's always in my hair

An unkindness for an unkindness does not goodness make.

لم أكتفِ بعد من الضحك علي الحماقة البشرية

There’s the old saying about ‘killing two birds with one stone’. However, most of us aren’t paying enough attention to know what the birds are, and even if we did we wouldn’t know where to find the stones. So maybe we should start looking for both.

One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a lovely book on botanical illustration called "Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master: A New Treatise on Flower Painting." That same year, Prudence made for Alma an exquisite satin pincushion, rendered in Alma's favorite color, aubergine.