"Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place"

-- Billy Crystal

#Beautiful Quotes #Flower Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.”

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books
“Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.”
“In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“Just what part of meow don't you understand?”
“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”
“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”

Source : "Fictional character: Carol". "Where the Wild Things Are", www.imdb.com. October 13, 2009.
“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
“Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.”

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