"If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else."

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Source : Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Daughter Quotes #Believe Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship”

Source : John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.”
“Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.”
“I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthyâ€”and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.”
“World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.”
“Love is when you let someone be the way they are.”
“Anybody who is in #â€Ž freelance work, especially #â€Ž artistically , knows that it comes with all the #â€Ž insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening #â€Ž life .”

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