I like Gardens and I like Quotes

It would be fun if we could combine both of the Quotes and the Gardens...

I hope that you will provide me with your favorite quotes.

"When I die I want to come back as your tears. What could be better than to be conceived in your heart born in your eyes live on your cheeks and die on your lips?"

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

~ Khalil Gibra ~

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is Love

~Socrates ~

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

~ Ingrid Bergman ~

The only things in life you regret are the risks that you didn't take.

~ Anonymous ~

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.  ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  ~Emma Goldman

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, and spontaneous.  Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!  ~Edward Abbey

"It's not what they say about you that matters, it's what they
whisper." ~Proverb~

You have to be cruel to be kind"  ~J F B~

"Language has created the word 'Loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone." ~ Paul Johannes Tillich ~

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.  ~John F. Kennedy, 1961

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.  If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.  ~Albert Einstein

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
~ Socrates ~

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

"Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart!"

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is LOVE" ~ Socrates ~

“You love simply because you cannot help it."  - Kim Anderson -

“Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.” ~ Anonymous ~

“When You Lose, Do not lose the Lesson” - Dalai Lama -

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread" ~ Mother Teresa ~

"Life is not the amount of breaths, it's the moments that take your breath away" - I don't know who said this but i like it -

"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." ~Gibran Kahlil Gibran~

"True happiness and a fullness of joy can be found only in the tender and intimate relationships of the family.” ~ Anonymous ~