Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 – 1857), Tuesday 29 October 1850
Category Archives: RESTORATION
The length of a frog can only be determined after it dies. Ghanaia
DUSK
Ali Cobby Eckermann
she sits on a rocky ledge
overlooking frog song
puncturing a choked river
at dusk
it is only here native birds sing
their evening lullaby
echoed between red banks
overgrown with weeds
it’s like life slips away in the evening
a resounding of Salientia castanets
soon to fall silent
like flaking moss
she listens for earth song
under the algae and foreign reeds
and just as darkness falls
a fish jumps rippling memory
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 28 November 1925
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley
“That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land Of Oz
To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones.
Nicholas Charles Trublet
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn`t that the best position from which to pray?”
― Ethel Barrymore
The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles. Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was shattered. I say nay. For the chains of despair have no key, and the soul destroyed by that monster can never hope to be unaffected. There are things done that cannot be undone.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years – and it opens.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
“The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.”
― Dan B. Allender
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 