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#1

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: friendship, love

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#2

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: dying, legacy

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#3

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

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#4

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

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#5

“He was like a jalapeño, bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

tags: attraction, strange

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#6

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: lavender, love, magic, rosemary, salt, superstition

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#7

“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

tags: garden, gardening, landscape, nature, poetry

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#8

“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

tags: blossom, blossoming, books, dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, talking, the-sun-watches-the-sun, wisdom

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#9

“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: beauty-quotes, bloom-quotes, blossom, flower-quotes, guru-quotes, humility-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-about-life, life-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, modesty-quotes, sage-quotes, success-quotes, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quote, wisdom-quotes

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#10

“The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. "I have it too!" he exclaimed. "I am a part of this Earth, aren't I? Just like the birds and the trees and the people - I am."
"Om." said his companion.
Unseen by them, a blossom fell.”
― Helen Fox

tags: am, birds, blossom, companion, eager, fox, helen, i, om, people, trees

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#11

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: bloom-quotes, blossom, blossoming, criticism-quotes, critics-quotes, envy-quotes, flower-quotes, haters-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-about-life, inspirational-quotes-for-women, inspirational-quotes-motivation, jelousy-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, life-quotes-inspirational-quotes, motivation-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-runners, motivational-quotes-for-women, nature-quotations, nature-quotes, self-esteem-quotes, weed-quotes, weeds, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quote, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes, wise-sayings-quotes, wise-words-quotes

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#12

“As long as the sun smiles above us our hopes will always blossom.”
― Atalay Aydın

tags: blossom, flowers, hope-quotes, life-quotes, smile-quotes, sun

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#13

“The old woman paid no attention to the camellia until that morning, when a fleck of pink caught her eye. The single saucer-size blossom was more magnificent than she could ever have imagined. More beautiful than any rose she'd ever seen, it swayed in the morning breeze with such an air of royalty, the old woman felt the urge to curtsey in its presence.”
― Sarah Jio, The Last Camellia

tags: blossom, camellia, flower, pink, rare-species

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#14

“THE WEATHER OF LOVE

Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: beast, blossom, blossoming, death, delusional, die, dissect, dying, everlasting-love, flower, hour, love, love-poem, neglect, petals, poetry, rain, relationship, relationships, romantic-poem, scent, shine, sting, storm, sunlight, sweetest-scent, thorns, unconditional, unconditonal-love, uncontrollable, vision, weather, wilting

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#15

“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
― Seneca

tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism

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#16

“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: marcus-aurelius, meditations, philosophy, stoic

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#17

“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: motivation, philosophy, procrastination, stoic, stoicism

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#18

“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: blame, philosophy, stoic

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#19

“The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: ethics, morality, philosophy, proof, stoic, stoicism

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#20

“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

tags: epicteus, invincible, life, stoic, stubborn

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#21

“No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stoic, stoicism

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#22

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, THE ART OF LIVING

tags: books, learning, stoic, stoicism, wisdom

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#23

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion

tags: epictetus-stoicism, philosophy, stoic, stoicism, will

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#24

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

tags: epictetus, epictetus-stoicism, philosophy-of-mind, stoic

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#25

“You can dance in the rain or sulk in the rain. It will rain regardless.”
― William Mulligan

tags: inspirational, optimism, positivity, stoic, stoicism-quotes

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#26

“Acceptance for what you truly can’t control, but responsibility for what you can control. The Stoic does not believe in categorizing so many things as ‘outside your control’ that you simply become a victim of circumstance. Far more is within your control than you might think.”
― Dan Crenshaw, Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage

tags: stoic

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#27

“Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.”
― Christopher Markus

tags: captain-america, captain-america-3, captain-america-civil-war, civil-war, integrity, marvel, marvel-cinematic-universe, mcu, sharon-carter, steve-rogers, stoic, stubborn, truth

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#28

“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism

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#29

“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.”
― Marcus Aurelius

tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism

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#30

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the
spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: philosophy, stoic, temperance, virtue, wisdom

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