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“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”
― The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
― The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
“Cootamundra wattle
Meaning: I wound to heal
Acacia baileyana | New South Wales
Graceful tree with fern-like foliage and bright golden-yellow globe-shaped flower heads. Adaptable, hardy evergreen, easy to grow. Profuse flowering in winter. Heavily fragrant and sweetly scented. Produces abundant pollen, favored for feeding bees in the production of honey.”
― The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Meaning: I wound to heal
Acacia baileyana | New South Wales
Graceful tree with fern-like foliage and bright golden-yellow globe-shaped flower heads. Adaptable, hardy evergreen, easy to grow. Profuse flowering in winter. Heavily fragrant and sweetly scented. Produces abundant pollen, favored for feeding bees in the production of honey.”
― The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete”
― Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
and yet never fully complete”
― Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
“Trials make you strong.
Failure makes you humble.
Challenges make you strive.
Life keeps you going and growing”
― Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
Failure makes you humble.
Challenges make you strive.
Life keeps you going and growing”
― Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle
“Fairest of the deathless gods.
This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
― Mythology
This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
― Mythology
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