"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

Carnegie, Dale on tragedies
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"For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is."

Lacroix, Christian on elegance
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"The endearing elegance of female friendship."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses."

Proverb on giving
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"Be both the gardener and the rose."

Unknown, Source on action   

"It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger."

Will, George F. on memory   

"Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf."

Coolidge, Susan on growth
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"Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden."

Eliot, T. S. on regret
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it"

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"One rose says more than the dozen"

Craig, Wendy on gifts   

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."

Eliot, George on action
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"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on names
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"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying."

Herrick, Robert on beauty
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"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

Hogan, Ben on joy
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"The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."

Unknown, Source on love
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses."

Unknown, Source on patience
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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