“Grace, like water flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey

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“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.” – Dwight Lyman Moody

“Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.” – Harry Ironside

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” – Aristotle

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. -Victor Hugo

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. -Elie Wiesel

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. -Pope Francis

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. -Denis Waitley

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. -William Hazlitt

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. -Anne Lamott

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. -Charles Caleb Colton

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. -Marlene Dietrich

“Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.” – John Newton

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“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good” -Lucia Capocchione

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“Play is the beginning of knowledge.” -George Dorsey

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.” -Brian Sutton-Smith

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran

“It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…” ― James A. Murphy

“The true object of all human life is play.” -G. K. Chesterton

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” -Charles Schaefer

“Play is the exultation of the possible.” -Martin Buber

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw

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We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. -Jenny Uglow


What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero



Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Unknown


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