Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
Susan Polis SchutzTags: happiness dance sun joy happy flowers wild summer
In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.
H.E. DaveyTags: art flowers tea yoga meditation universal efficiency martial-arts do ways budo ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do ikebana kado shodo universal-principles way-of-living
You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.
Steve MaraboliTags: life seeds success flowers action frustration
These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
Chuck PalahniukLet a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and gratuitous, hinting that the Creator is solely occupied with aesthetic considerations, and combines disparate objects simply because they look so well together, and that thing will admirably fill the role of a flower.
Hope MirrleesTags: flowers aesthetics punctual-surprise the-creator
In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the odor of wounded men, a sickly odor of blood and antiseptics which marked the zone of every military hospital. All Athens quickly took on that odor, as the wounded Greek soldiers were moved out of hospitals and piled into empty warehouses to make way for German wounded. Now every church, every empty lot, every school building in Athens is full of wounded, and on the pathways of Zappion, the park in the heart of Athens, bandaged men in makeshift wheel chairs are to be seen wherever one walks. Zappion is a profusion of flowers, heavy-scented luxurious flowers; but even the flower fragrance is not as strong as that of blood.
Betty WasonTags: war fragrance flowers blood odor athens military-occupation
Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted with pale blue stars of blossom and chives nod heads of tousled purple. New sage leaves sprout silver green among the brittle, frost-browned remains of last year's growth. Lily of the valley, she thinks, that will be out in the cloister garden at Saint Justina's by now.
Sarah BowerPick the weeds and keep the flowers.
Kelly ClarksonTags: inspirational friends relationships reflection flowers friendships weeds
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...
Arundhati RoyTags: flowers beautiful midnight
В характера си тя имаше чисти страни, чисти като синьото цвете, останали й от времето, когато пееше по улиците. Като гледаше продавачките на цветя край метрото, тя ми казваше тогава:
- Вярваш ли, че един ден някой мъж ще ми поднесе малко букетче, което ще купи, минавайки оттук?
След това тя получаваше толкова цветя, че можеше да ги препродава. Беше удовлетворена, цветята свидетелстваха за нейния успех, но...
- Ти не можеш ме убеди - умуваше тя, - че тия огромни букети се поднасят от сърце, много мангизи се плащат за тях. А за едно букетче от теменужки човек трябва да си помисли, трябва да бръкне в джоба си и после да ти го даде, без да се страхува, че ще изглежда смешен. Това е жест...
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