"Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns: That I might bloom mine hour A rose in spite of thorns. Oh that my work were done As birds' that soar Rejoicing in the sun: That when my time is run And daylight too, I so might rest once more Cool with refreshing dew."

-- Christina Rossetti

#Summer Quotes #Running Quotes #Flower Quotes

“I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.”
“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”
“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.”
“The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.”
“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”

Source : Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.38, Penguin
“I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices...”
“Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.64, Random House
“Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.”

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