To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.
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