Jade M. Sheldon:
“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."
Jade M. Sheldon:
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, when he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep."
Jade M. Sheldon:
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy
Jade M. Sheldon:
“My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions."
Jade M. Sheldon:
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."
Jade M. Sheldon:
“Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. "
Jade M. Sheldon:
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"The Tulip is a Courtly Queen."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"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."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"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."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Flowers Are Love's Truest Language."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"And Spring arose on the garden fair, like the spirit of love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."
Jade M. Sheldon:
“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.”
Jade M. Sheldon:
"The belly rules the mind."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."
Jade M. Sheldon:
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."
Jade M. Sheldon:
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