"Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love."

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Source : "Torture Garden".

Octave Mirbeau

#Flower Quotes #Violent Quotes #Splendid Quotes

“I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”
“Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.”

Source : Thomas Young (1807). “A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes”, p.7
“a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own.”

Source : Hope Edelman (1994). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss”, Delta
“Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.”
“Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.”
“If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.”
“Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.”
“To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.”

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