"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

-- Khalil Gibran

#Love Quotes #Flower Quotes #Anger Quotes

“Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
“I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.”
“My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.”
“Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.”
“A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.”
“The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.”

Source : Lucy Ellmann (2013). “Dot in the Universe”, p.164, A&C Black
“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”
“Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.”

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