"If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case."

-- Therese of Lisieux

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“If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.”
“In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.”
“That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.”
“The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.”
“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
“Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.”
“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”
“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”

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