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“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.” - Kahlil Gibran 🎨Vera Kober’s oil painting of rose.
“Isn’t life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?” - 🖋Thomas Mann 🎨Evening Falls’ by American artist Leo Stans
“To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” - E.E. Cummings, 1894-1962, American poet. - Thomas W Schaller
“God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the down, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.” ~ Victor Hugo ~ Veneta Docheva 💐
“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.” - Charles Schwab - James Coleman American