jewelflyt:
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
jewelflyt:
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
jewelflyt:
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you.
jewelflyt:
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
jewelflyt:
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
jewelflyt:
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
jewelflyt:
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
jewelflyt:
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
jewelflyt:
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
jewelflyt:
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
jewelflyt:
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.