"I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous."

-- Edward Abbey

#Flower Quotes #Long Quotes #Spontaneous Quotes

“All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.”
“I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.”
“If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of own achievements as their attitude is likely to remain the same.”
“People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things youâ€™ve seen and the people youâ€™ve met.”

Source : Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.105, Spiegel & Grau
“People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.”
“Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.”
“It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.”
“When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!”

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