...Lys...: "Growth is the only evidence of life"
...Lys...: "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
...Lys...: "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
...Lys...: "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. "
...Lys...: "The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
...Lys...: "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. "
...Lys...: "If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. "
...Lys...: "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
...Lys...: "A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. "
...Lys...: "Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll."
...Lys...: "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "
...Lys...: "May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. "