Bets

“Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.”
― Erma Bombeck, Family - The Ties That Bind...And Gag!

“I am no bird, no net ensnares me.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.”
― Kierkegaard

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh