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

— Thomas Carlyle

" The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. "

— Marcus Aurelius

" Keep calm and carry on. "

— British Government (World War II)

" I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. "

— Margaret Mitchell

" Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. "

— Gerard De Nerval

" The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we are afraid. "

— Muriel Barbery