#lower

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#astronomical #become #entire #flower #foundation

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#am #become #being #flowers #following

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#appeals #broadcast #cake #dances #down

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#beauty #flower #inspiration #spiritual #beauty

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#body #everywhere #flowers #human #human body

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#resentment #self-esteem #weak #your

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#another #edge #electrons #galaxies #majestic

Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#flower #shrivel #staring #death

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#basic idea #called #chew #chewing #day

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#always #awake #first #flowers #heart