"Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Flower Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Relaxation Quotes

“Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.”

Source : "The GQ+A: Eli Roth on New Disaster Horror Flick Aftershock". Interview with Jen Ortiz, www.gq.com. May 9, 2013.
“When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.”

Source : John R. Erickson (1993). “The case of the vampire cat”, Viking Books
“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press
“Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.”
“I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.”
“Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.”
“Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.”
“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.”

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