jewelflyt:
17/31: When I grow up, I want to remember that I always wanted to be about a thousand different things & one lifetime didn't seem nearly enough. When I grow up, I hope it's at the very end when it doesn't matter anymore anyway
jewelflyt:
Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning & loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
jewelflyt:
I'm better with words when I don't want anything because then I'm just glad to be alive & words are my happy sounds
jewelflyt:
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.
jewelflyt:
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.
jewelflyt:
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
jewelflyt:
trying to remember when it stopped being theory & turned into real life, because theory was a whole lot easier
jewelflyt:
As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body.
jewelflyt:
Make our life a supernatural high; Cos we're both leaving all that bad stuff far behind .....
jewelflyt:
I have heard some beautiful notes in my life, she said, but they were nothing without the rest of the music, too.
jewelflyt:
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
jewelflyt:
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
jewelflyt:
This is a blank map that lets you go as far as you want in any direction, with no questions asked, but it's no help at all if you want to know if you're going the right way.
jewelflyt:
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month
jewelflyt:
Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults? & their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again.
jewelflyt:
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all
