A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.
LEO BUSCAGLIAIf you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
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How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?
BABETTE DEUTSCH -
When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
DR. SEUSS -
On the days that I drown deep in the rain, I must remember that it, too, will help me grow closer to the sun.
SHELBY ENSIGN -
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Misery is a choice. I chose happiness.
AKON -
I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
BILL MURRAY -
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
BILL MOLLISON -
Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
RAY BRADBURY -
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NIN -
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
THERESE OF LISIEUX -
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
QUENTIN CRISP -
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
TACITUS -
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
JULIAN OF NORWICH -
Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.
BRIAN GREENE -
I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
BILLY BRAGG -
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
BESSIE HEAD -
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
THICH NHAT HANH -
I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same.
BRAM STOKER -
People who know me know that if I say I’m going to do something, I’m doing it. I am hungry. I am determined.
DEONTAY WILDER -
Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we’re heading.
MARVIN GAYE -
You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you’ll do it well.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE -
You’re not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I’m too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.
BERNARD HOPKINS