superstition

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!”
Dr. Seuss

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Love's truest language

Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,

Like the divining rods of Magi old,

Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,

But love--strong love, that never can decay!

Park Benjamin,

Sonnet--Flowers, Love's Truest Language

Fayette

Meet Fayette the sweet little fairy

The dear Forget-me-not

FORGET-ME-NOT

COULD every blossom find a voice
And sing a strain to me,
I know where I would place my choice,
Which my delight should be.
I would not choose the lily tall,
The rose from musky grot,
But I would still my minstrel call
The blue Forget-me-not.

And I on mossy bank would lie,
Of brooklet, rippling clear;
And she of the sweet, azure eye,
Close at my listening ear,
Should sing into my soul a strain
Might never be forgot,
So rich with joy, so rich with pain--
The blue Forget-me-not.

Ah! every blossom hath a tale,
With silent grace to tell,
From rose that reddens to the gale
To modest heather-bell;
But oh! the flower in every heart
That finds a sacred spot
To bloom, with azure leaves apart,
Is the Forget-me-not.

Love plucks it from the mosses green
When parting hours are high,
And places it Love's palms between
With many an ardent sigh;
And bluely up from grassy graves
In some loved churchyard spot
It glances tenderly and waves--
The dear Forget-me-not.

Crawford, Isabella Valancy (1850-1887)

a tiny little flower

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower

could preoccupy a person so completely

that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.... -

Sophie Scholl

love is a flower

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms,

Without the aid of the seasons.”
Kahlil Gibran

discovery

“Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery”

wings like a dove

“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!

for then would I fly away, and be at rest.”
Bible

a new love

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite,

and you do not know what it will bring back,

a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Anais Nin

Love is the flower

“Love is the flower of life,

and blossoms unexpectedly and without law,

and must be plucked where it is found,

and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
D.H. Lawrence

geeky

“To learn to read is to light a fire;

every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo

single flower

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you,

I could walk forever in my garden.

Claudia Ghandi

lovebird

See how much I love you

Geeky bird

“What a pair of spectacles is here!”
William Shakespeare

I'm a little bird

“I'm youth, I'm joy,

I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
James Matthew Barrie

I am loveable

I am love, I am loveable, I am loved, and I love.
Sofia Diaz

taking care

“We also want more people to learn about

the happiness of taking care of a little animal in need.”
Zhou Min

Faith of the heart

I'm going where my heart will take me

I've got faith to believe

I can do anything

I've got strength of the soul

And no one's gonna bend or break me

I can reach any star

I've got faith

I've got faith

Faith of the heart
Rod Stewart

sweet mirage

“Give me the old enthusiasms back,

Give me the ardent longings that I lack,

--The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth,

The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .”
William Wetmore Story

twist

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse

a living flower

A flowerless room is a soulless room,

to my way of thinking;

but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

(Vita Sackville-West)

With a twist and a twirl

“Lithe and long as the serpent train,

Springing and clinging from tree to tree,

Now darting upward,

now down again,

With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.”
William Gilmore Simms

camouflage-hidden in the meadow's grass

“Landscapes have a language of their own,

expressing the soul of the things,

lofty or humble,

which constitute them,

from the mighty peaks

to the smallest of the tiny flowers

hidden in the meadow's grass”

white camouflage

“Oft when the white,

still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart,

I have felt it like a glory in my heart”
Edwin Markham

The sweet forget-me-nots

The sweet forget-me-nots,

that grow for happy lovers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Butterfly lady

How does one become a butterfly?'' she asked pensively.

''You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.''

Trina Paulus

the right moment

Love waits for one thing, the right moment.

Anna

Rejection of love

Rejection is the greatest enemy of Love.

Sharmila Sanka

soil of acceptance

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance,

not in the atmosphere of rejection”
John Powell quotes

childhood pastime

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters

or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”
Joseph Cornell quotes

eyes wide open

“I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open,

and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed”

to suit me

You can never get a cup of tea large enough
or a book long enough to suit me”
C.S. Lewis quotes

How do you like my new suit ?

simple

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see
and what I feel
in the best and simplest way.”
Ernest Hemingway

this little bird's paradise

The bird of paradise alights only

upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

where flowers bloom

Where flowers bloom so does hope.-
Lady Bird Johnson

my paradise garden

I love my garden, it is my very own paradise
Today I picked the first raspberry of the season.
I just had to paint it before I ate the sweet little berry

only a few

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.”

Music amongst the trees

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden,
but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier

happy birthday

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever

family portrait