#flower

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ↗

— Ikkyu Sojun

#break #breeze #brings #cherry #flowers

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#art #border #civilization #course #flowers

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. ↗

— Ina Garten

#flowers #i #i always #i think #like

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#bought #dinner #flowers #gentleman #give

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#fairest #flower #manure #nature #roots

I like perfume and flowers. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#flowers #i #like #perfume

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#coming #flowers #hear #i #out

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#lowly #shy #smells #sweetest

I believe in roses. And I believe in putting roses into a vase and sitting the vase on the table. I believe in getting lost and being found, I believe in going barefoot, and in laughter! My religion is to laugh at myself, whenever I can! I believe in the sunlight and in grey skies with big, beautiful clouds! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#believing-in-beauty #going-barefoot #happiness #inspirational-quotes #laughter

Then it dawned on me that men throughout the country had to know about nu shu (women's written word). How could they not? They wore it on their embroidered shoes. They saw us weaving our messages into cloth. They heard us singing our songs and showing off our third-day wedding books. Men just considered our writing beneath them. It is said men have the hearts of iron, while women are made of water. This comes through men's writing and women's writing. Men's writing has more than 50,000 characters, each uniquely different, each with deep meanings and nuances. Our women's writing has 600 characters, which we use phonetically, like babies to create about 10,000 words. Men's writing takes a lifetime to learn and understand. Women's writing is something we pick up as girls, and we rely on the context to coax meaning. Men write about the outer realm of literature, accounts, and crop yields; women write about the inner realm of children, daily chores, and emotions. The men in the Lu household were proud of their wives' fluency in nu shu and dexterity in embroidery, though these things had as much importance to survival as a pig's fart. ↗

— Lisa See

#men