#arm

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now. ↗

#compassion #dharma #inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #life-and-living #sweet-irony #sweetness #tattoo

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells

I owe everything to the army. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#everything #i #owe

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#around #cannot #comfort #countryside #crops

Ellis,” he said. “You’re watchin’ a miracle right under your nose.” He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop them into the hole he had already made. “In each of them little things, God put life. Now you take care with it, and you feed it with water and sunlight. And, most important of all of ’em, put it in good ground, and that life is gonna sprout right out. ↗

— Tracy Winegar

#farming #inspirational #inspirational

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ↗

— Albert Camus

#between #except #harmony #leads #life

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ↗

— Will Carleton

#beetle #drought #each #fall #farmer

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#barbarians #farming #hunting #like #sea

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ↗