"When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."

-- Hermann Hesse

#Home Quotes #Tree Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Sometimes the best things look the strangest.”
“I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.”
“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”
“â€¦made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.”
“Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.”
“The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.”
“Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.”
“Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin

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