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Quotes
This is a collection of quotations and sayings that is further categorized into LOVE, HAPPINESS, etc… What is a quote? A quote is the repetition of phrases or sentences that usually became famous. Also called sayings, these are usually indicated by a quotation mark – thus, quotes are sometimes referred to as quotations… More quote subcategories to come…
Nurse: just another word to describe a person strong enough to tolerate anything and soft enough to understand anyone.
Unknown Author
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
Martha Stewart
Jonathan Anderson quote: scruptural things that fascinates
Jonathan Anderson said: Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
MoreMotherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Sleep benefits and deprivation [videos]
Enjoy the honey dew of slumber. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, quote The average amount of sleep we need is 8 hours; that is, one third in a 24-hour period. But most of us, including me, push the limit of waking hours depriving us of that good-health-promoting slumber time. It’s so ironic for me to think that […]
MoreWe are born of love. Love is our mother.
Rumi
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant
Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
Paulo Coelho
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
Glenn Close, Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence
At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.
Lori Deschene
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off; it enters into us like breath into our lungs; it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Julius Sterling Morton
Book: Black letters on a white page [video]
Go beyond your story, beyond borders… Read till no strangers remain. Sharjah WBC
MoreThat’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
Richard Neville
I have no interest in smoking marijuana, but I can’t see any reason to keep someone of age from lighting up.
Henry Rollins
The biggest killer on the planet is stress, and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
Willie Nelson
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
Anni Albers
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
David Allen
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
Steve Maraboli