" I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride; I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that you hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep, your eyes close. "

— Pablo Neruda

" To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. "

— Euripides

" If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. "

— Buddha

" A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. "

— Zen Shin

" A brother is a first friend and a second father. "

— Unknown

" Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. "

— Thomas Carlyle