Patricia Penton Leimbach quotes

“For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.”
-- Patricia Penton Leimbach

Source : Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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“Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.”
-- Patricia Penton Leimbach

Source : Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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“Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.”
-- Patricia Penton Leimbach

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“The reward of suffering is experience”

“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”

“Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.”

“If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.”

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.”

“The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1863). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.95

“Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

“Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.”

Source : Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.157

“We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.”