#flower

She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been. ↗

— Kimberley Freeman

#life

It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do....Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous...It was so much gray--so little black and white; for a year she'd spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life. ↗

— Laura Kinsale

#life

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it. ↗

— Fan Wu

#flowers #friendship #love #past #friendship

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#flowers #life #love #death

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#time

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#body #flower #his #liberated #nation

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

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#friend #haven #like #nobody #really

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#beauty #could #decided #flower #huge

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#cheaper #flowers #hate #i #models