"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. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

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Source : Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

Georgia O'Keeffe

#Inspirational Quotes #Nature Quotes #Flower Quotes

“The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.”

Source : Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.147, Hachette UK
“Those who canâ€™t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.”
“I really like reading about how families work together.”
“The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.”

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press
“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”
“I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.”
“Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.”
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

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