- "How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand… there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold." - J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
- "There is a garden in her face, where roses and white lillies grow." - Thomas Campion
- "My soul is full of longing, for the secret of the sea. And the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "When twilight drops her curtain down and pints it with a star. Remember that you have a friend though she may wander far." - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - The Book of Matthew
- "She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom."
- "When we reach out to others, they reach out to us. It's a two-way street, a street practically lined with balloons and streamers in celebration of the unique bonds of friendship." - Luci Swindoll
- "She could not speak, but she did 'hold on', and the warm grasp of the friendly human hand comforted her sore heart, and seemed to lead her nearer to the Divine arm which alone could uphold her in her trouble." - Louisa May Alcott
- "My cup runneth over with love." - Jones/Schmidt
- "Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books." - Charles Caleb Colton
- "When I have a home, and can do as I will / December may rage over ocean and hill / and batter at my door - as he does once a year / I laugh at his storming, and drink his good cheer." - Old English Song
- "Lord, when doubts fill my mind, when my heart is in turmoil, quiet me and give me renewed hope and cheer." - Psalm 94:19
- "I think he will laugh but instead he tells me he loves me the way I am. Hearing those words is like being handed flowers." - David Levithan
- "Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come." - Chinese Proverb
- "May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door." - Irish Blessing
- "If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." - Terri Guillemets
- "The wind is the moon’s imagination wandering." - Saul Williams
- "And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of the words up from the leaves, through soft light, into his eyes, the mute voice in his ears." - Keith Miller
- "I want to be a character, I don’t want to be defined, I want to change, everyday…I want to be silly, I want to be wonderful, I want to prance instead of walk, skip instead of run, I want flowers, lots of flowers, I want to write until the words mean nothing to others, but everything to me. I want to be enigmatic and magnificent. I want my aura to be gold; I want to wake up with the sun and with a smile…I want books, lots and lots of books, I want to read all day, completely let go, let my imagination run wild. I want to grasp life with both hands and not let go, I want to be magical and pretty…I want to watch Breakfast At Tiffany’s until I know every line. I want to be compassionate and considerate, and I want to make other people smile. I want to make them proud." - Victoria Hart
- "Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity." - Lindley Karstens
- "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." - John Lubbock
- "Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a life consisting of entire days full of imaginary companions and created people." - Fernando Pessoa
- "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else." - Georgia O'Keeffe
- "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." - Rose Franken
- "Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time." - Marcus Aurelius
- "Respond intelligently, even to unintelligent treatment." - Lao Tzu
- "Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes." - Clare Ansberry
- "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken." - James Dent
- "Now in a cottage built of lilacs and laughter, i know the meaning of the words ever after." - Polka dots and moonbeams
- "One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago, I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right." - Tove Jansson
- "All of my life I’ve chased dreams of what could be. For the first time In my life, I’ve actually caught one." - Sarah Addison Allen
- "Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?" - Bev Adams
- "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
- "Reality is not allowed to enter my world today. I’m going to huddle inside my giant cave of a room, nestle into my nest of a bed, and just read books all day."
- "I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines a little brighter, and life is so much sweeter. For being with you takes me to a different place: a place called love."
- "A book is like a garden carried in pocket."
- But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rain falls hard. Friend, I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love yourself. I want to be the air in your lungs that reminds you to breath. When the walls come down, when the thunder rumbles, when nobody else is home, hold my hand, and I promise I won’t let go.
- "She was gracefully dancing in the waves. She finally understood how you could feel so detached from the world, yet be at one with it."
- "What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she would fly."
- “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” - Deepak Chopra
mar 10 2014 ∞
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