Denman Island Quotes

#1. You will forgive me, for I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the Dandelion, make but sorry figure in a Drawing
room
Did you ask me out with a bunch of Daisies, I should thank you, and accept

Emily Dickinson

#2. I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

John Gay

#3. He was like a sheep being led to be killed. He was quiet, as a lamb is quiet while its wool is being cut; he never opened his mouth. He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended.

Davis Bunn

#4. I've discovered that the more love and joy I pour into others, the more I experience in my own life.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

Sarah Louise Delany

#6. Allow grief room to air itself," Maurice had taught her."Be judicious in using the body to comfort another, for you may extinguish the freedom that the person feels to be able to share a sadness.

Jacqueline Winspear

#7. Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

H.L. Mencken

#9. And in the end ... the love you get equals the love you give

William Shakespeare