Comfort

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. ~William Shakespeare

Bee busy

Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley

Who are you?

I can’t go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.“
~Lewis Carroll

Twenty after
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drink

"A rose tree may be a rose tree may be a rosy rose tree if watered."

~Gertrude Stein

Sustenance

Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? ~Chang Chan-Pao

Scratch n sniff

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

~Jean de Boufflers