"The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there."

-- Antonin Dvorak

#Weed Quotes #Flower Quotes #Feet Quotes

“It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.”
“I want to be a living work of art”

Source : "The Divine Marquise" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2003.
“I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.”
“I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.”
“Don't take things for granted.”
“And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.”
“His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His presence. Do not disturb this by anxiety to know what is in store for tomorrow. Out of the very tranquility of worship will be born the guidance you need.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (2013). “Total Love”, p.53, Barbour Publishing

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