Susan Brougher > Quotes

“I had learned that we love each other imperfectly. It is the way it’s meant to be. And sometimes, no matter how much we love someone, it’s not enough.”
― Susan Brougher

“Raindrops, like teardrops, are known to fall at will, and pay no attention to desires for a sunny
outcome.”
― Susan Brougher

“The sun is light and so the moon, looking from the sky on to the earth below.
The rain brings water to fill the lakes and streams, and fall upon the children running in the yard, mouths wide open to drink it in.”
― Susan Brougher, The Strongest Bond

“I fell asleep last night
to the sweet smell of lavender on my sheets
and awoke this morning
to the aroma of coffee brewing.
How much I would miss if I could not smell
the roses in my garden
or the fragrance after the rain.”
― Susan Brougher

“I sat listening
to the soulful mourning dove.
Summer breezes stirred my hair.
The drifting fragrance of lavender
filled my head with long-forgotten thoughts.”
― Susan Brougher

“Words form in our thoughts and travel in our blood the issue of life. They begin long before they fill blank pages and they live long after the book is closed.”
― Susan Brougher, The Strongest Bond

“I got up early, ate breakfast and walked around the lake. Leaves rustled beneath my feet.
I blew my nose and coughed.
I lamented the days I’d missed walking
when I was not feeling up to going outside.
The sun came easier through the trees half-bare. Winter was in the air.”
― Susan Brougher

“I believe as Henry David Thoreau that it is good to live in each season. For they pass one into the next and back around again as we pass by not noticing the simple unfolding of a flower's bud. Should we take but a moment to breathe the air scented with lavender, or to drink it in and taste its fruit, we would be drawn to the very earth we walk on, grounded in life, and lifted in spirit.”
― Susan Brougher, Want To Feel Better - Keep Lavender Handy

“I was born to live in the country
where the trees and streams run free
around, and through the soul of me.”
― Susan Brougher

“The word “link” points to a relationship between two things, especially when one thing touches the other. A link or connection could easily exist between people and plants.”
― Susan Brougher, Want To Feel Better - Keep Lavender Handy

“Everything changes when you’re a teenage girl, and your mother dies. The loneliness never stops. You hold on to what once was, and will never be again.”
― Susan Brougher

“It is said that we could close our eyes to beauty and to horrors, and our ears to lovely melodies or to ugly words. But we cannot escape scent. Together with breath it entered us humans, for to breathe is to live.”
― Susan Brougher, Want To Feel Better - Keep Lavender Handy

“Nature is poetry, dreams, and the coming to oneself. The wind takes us away and toward, changing our direction, closing our eyes against the dust it stirs up from the ground. Where it came from cannot be found.
The sun is light and so the moon, looking from the sky on to the earth below.
The rain brings water to fill the lakes and streams, and fall upon the children running in the yard, mouths wide open to drink it in.
And what of the trees? Hug them, love them, sit beneath their shelter, draw upon their roots, see the leaves and shoots reaching for the sky, and always wonder why.”
― Susan Brougher

“Nature is poetry, dreams, and the coming to oneself. The wind takes us away and toward, changing our direction, closing our eyes against the dust it stirs up from the ground. Where it came from cannot be found.”
― Susan Brougher