#flow

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#am #anyone #copy #else #find

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#flower #heart #heretofore #i #kings

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#heart #joy #joyous #kindness #laugh

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#benefits #corporate #cuts #democracy #direction

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#about #flowers #joy #mad #must

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#blossom #born #die #earth #flower

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#flower #modesty #nor #sincerity #spontaneous

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ↗