💬 Quotes

"Perfect is boring. Everyone wants to be perfect, but perfect isn't real. It's the flaws that make us human."

"You can't choose who you fall in love with. It just happens, and when it does, you're either going to fight it or you're going to let it change you."

"We’re two different worlds colliding, and for the first time, I don’t want to run away from the explosion."

"If you don't take risks, you'll never know what you're capable of. You'll just stay in your safe little box, wondering 'what if' for the rest of your life."

"The house was still, and outside the small house the wilderness was lonely and quiet, but inside, the firelight was warm and the shadows were friendly."

"The wind howled, and the house shook, but Pa was there, and that was all that mattered."

"It is a good thing now that we must make our living, for there is nothing like hard work to keep one's spirits up."

"The wind sang a song to the prairie, and the prairie sang back to the wind, but it was a song that no one but the prairie could understand."

"A man's duty is to provide for his family, no matter how hard the trail or how wide the wilderness."

"What a happiness it is to be with the ones you love, and to know that you are together, safe and sound, at the end of the day."

"Les passions ont toutes cela de commun qu'elles font commettre des folies, mais la passion de la tulipe a cela de particulier qu'elle rend les sages fous."

"Cornelius Baerle n'avait qu'une seule ambition dans la vie, une ambition douce et paisible : cultiver des fleurs et surtout créer la grande tulipe noire."

"Il y a dans le cœur de l'homme un mystérieux instinct qui le pousse à chercher le bonheur là où il est le plus difficile à atteindre."

"La liberté est comme cette fleur rare ; ceux qui ne l'ont pas perdue ne savent pas tout le prix de sa beauté."

"Rosa, dans sa simplicité, comprit ce que les savants oublient souvent : qu'une vie sauvée vaut mieux que toutes les gloires du monde."

"L'envie est une ombre hideuse qui s'attache toujours aux pas de la lumière et du succès."

"It is one of the disadvantages of being poor that one's social system of visiting is undermined by the impossibility of returning calls."

"You was fashioned to be sculptured on a monument, or enshrined in an cathedral, and not to be drudging among us folkage."

"To persons of limited spheres, small things assume enormous proportions; and it is a generalization that the immediate surroundings of an individual grow to be the pivot of his universe."

"Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."