"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."

Nature, Water

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"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."

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