Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked through applauding leaves, high overhead.
~ Kristen Henderson
The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!
~ Mary Kate
It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, “How about another run?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Without you everything falls apart. Without you it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces.
~ Nine Inch Nails
One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.
~ Dan Brown
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
~ Martin Mull
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
~ John C. Maxwell
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
~ Dōgen
Poetry stands or falls by its music.
~ John Burnside