Michele Dimond

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people in the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you’re all to yourself that way, you’re really proud of yourself for a little while; you get to thinking things through, alone. Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson