Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

The ways of the Lord are unsearchable

Was there a drain?''No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri