Living is not enough. One must have freedom, sunshine and a little flower.

Hans Christian Anderson

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Guinean proverb

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Saint Augustine

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A garden is half made when it is well planned.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell

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Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Clare Ansberry

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Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earheart

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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How helpless we are like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.

Ovid

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

The best part of beauty is that which no photograph can express.

Francis Bacon

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches.  The wrong 

comes when riches possess men.

Billy Graham

It is compassion that helps us to perfect our wisdom and our power...

the transformed mind is ultimate healing.

Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Lynn Johnston

Everywhere is in walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Civilization ... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Richard Bach