*Cora:
accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart...
*Cora:
love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up...
*Cora:
these flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms...
*Cora:
if you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. if you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere...
*Cora:
love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings...
*Cora:
love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds...
*Cora:
happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable...
*Cora:
as sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession...
*Cora:
there is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice...
*Cora:
there is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals...
*Cora:
just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not...
*Cora:
flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul...
*Cora:
blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch...
*Cora:
nature will bear the closest inspection. she invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain...
*Cora:
in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed...