#flow

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. ↗

— Anne Rice

#double #flowers #funeral #house #i

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships? ↗

— W. D. Richter

#expect #flower #metal #ships #space

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#center #did #feel #flown #general

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#flow #having #performed #rights #well

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#draw #flow #fountainhead #give #go

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#baby #chicken #comes #flesh #flower

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#anything #comes #delight #enjoy #enjoyed

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#anyone #anything #book #composition #country

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#agreed #cape #draw #easy #feeling

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing