The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.
Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.
She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.
What a blessing it is to love books.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.
If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.
Margaret Thatcher once said, "If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. "
I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.