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  • #1
    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.”
    Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #3
    Frederick Buechner
    “To be wise is to be eternally curious.”
    Frederick Buechner

  • #4
    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
    Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

  • #5
    Tom Stoppard
    “Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
    Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

  • #6
    Riina Rinkineva aka. Sebastyne Young
    “A picture can tell a thousand words,
    but a few words can change it’s story.”
    Sebastyne Young

  • #7
    V. Vale
    “A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.”
    V. Vale, Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives

  • #8
    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    Mae West

  • #9
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #12
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #13
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    August Wilson

  • #14
    Francis of Assisi
    “He who works with his hands is a laborer.
    He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
    He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
    Saint Francis of Assisi

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
    William C. Faulkner

  • #16
    William Goldman
    “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #17
    Steve Maraboli
    “Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #18
    William Carlos Williams
    “But the sea
    which no one tends
    is also a garden”
    William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

  • #19
    Susan Polis Schutz
    “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
    susan polis schutz

  • #20
    “If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild”
    Cristian L. Martinez

  • #21
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!”
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: green

  • #22
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #23
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden

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  • #25
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #26
    “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
    Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

  • #27
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #28
    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #30
    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    John Keats



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