“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category Archives: inspiring quotes
“Life isn’t one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom.” –Louise Nevelson
“To those who can dream, there is no such place as faraway.” —Rachel Ashwell, Shabby Chic Interiors—My Rooms, Treasures, and Trinkets
“I have learned the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Knowing one day my roses will grow, shrubs will bloom, and flower petals will fall on the sun-drenched gravel.” –Rachel Ashwell, Shabby Chic Interiors–My Rooms, Treasures, and Trinkets
“I was repeatedly torn between the desire to emerge and engage versus my instinct to withdraw and reject all that was not safe and planned and under my control.” –Elizabeth Barrett Browning in ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ by Nancy Moser