Samuel Gilman quotes

His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!
-- Samuel Gilman

#Life #Flower #Sun

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.

It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.