#sings

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#else #flute #heart #hours #music

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#because #bird #butterfly #characteristic #his

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#cage #caged #child #compelled #does

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. ↗

— Hippocrates

#blessings #consider #derive #greatest #health

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#blessings #count #enables #hardest #master

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. ↗

— Homer

#both #cup #distributes #ever #evil

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#good #i #my own #own #really

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#block #doubt #getting #stop #want

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#blessings #climate #coal #easy #fertile