Checklists Clip Quotes & Sayings

I rebuke societies that impart to their flowers their cold and rigid demeanour. Flowers should not stand with the stiffness of a soldier on parade but must carry themselves with the relaxedness of a dancer, their arms outstretched above a shaggy mane. Life reveals few sights as distressing as the look of flowers standing mournfully at attention unstirred by the kisses of a million bees. This infection of uncomely reserve is the handiwork of sombre gardeners bred in sombre societies who will not consider their work done till their flowers exude in aspect that stiffness they esteem. They forget that God intended that we mingle with flowers and not merely admire them from afar. But there is a look in a fastidiously manicured garden that makes me keep my distance, a look that draws my eyes but scorns my touch, and that is why I condemn them. — Agona Apell

I'm not a wilting flower, unless that gets me extraspecial treats. — Rachel Caine

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do. — Mark Twain

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels. — Silvio Scaglia

The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us."
"Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked.
"No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us. — Michael Ende

Let us be a messenger of peace and illuminate the world with the lights of our love. — Debasish Mridha

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence. — Gautama Buddha

And the dancing? Was that your gift to the world? Because if so, I hope you kept the receipt. — Kate Meader