"A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression."

-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Eye Quotes #Garden Quotes #Play Quotes

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012
“When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”

Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'
“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.”

Source : "Discourses of Epictetus". Book by Arrian, I, 17,
“Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”
“Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.”

Source : "The Believer interview". logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.”
“Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.”
“To be a good bodybuilder you must be a good observer.”

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