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Haiku: A Floral Lesson
Life will have some thorns.
Must keep growing towards the light,
and share one’s beauty…
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Do you have any life lessons or words of wisdom you’d like to share? I always love hearing from you, dear readers, and I welcome you to comment…
Warm regards,
Melody
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Also tagged words of wisdom
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Words from the Wise: Some Favorite Quotes
Floral
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Character
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
Happiness & Gratitude
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Having a wider heart is more important than having a larger house.
Chen Yen
Art
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Giving
There are those that give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran
If you have no charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
If you have much, give of your wealth. If you have little, give of your heart.
Arab Proverb
Writing
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
Mario Llosa
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery.
Robert Cormier
Making Your Days Count
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Better well done than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
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I hope you like these quotes as much as I do!
Warm regards,
Melody

Posted in art, inspiration, life in general, nature, writing
Also tagged character, giving, gratitude, happiness, making your days count, quotes
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