"If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives."

-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Flower Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!”
“Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 10, 2017
“What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Two Heads are Better than One", 1846.
“I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.”
“Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.”
“There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.”
“Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.”

Source : "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.
“I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.”

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