“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Friday, December 5, 2014

Quote of the day

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”  (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre)

"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil." (Plato) 

Write a statement about a virtue or a vice, a quality or a flaw, using a metaphor (nature or other) to explore it.  Don't forget to sign your name!  Feel free to comment on other posts.

33 comments:

  1. Sadness is when you are stuck in a cloud between a dark sky and a joyful rainbow.

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  3. According to the laws of attraction, Love is what hold us to the Earth instead of gravity.

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  4. Hopefulness is being able to see the sunlight even through the thickest fog.

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  5. Wanting too much the fruit we forget the flowers.

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  6. Truthfulness is an oak planted over the weeds of lies

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  7. Knowledge is like a tree whose top you never reach.

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  8. Trust is a fragile flower which can only flourish with the right amount of sunlight and of water.

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  9. Loss is when the leaves are like tears that slowly fall to the ground. The trees are crying hoping that one day, Summer will come back.

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  10. Cowardice locks herself up in a safe and comfortable room ; there, nothing bad will happen to her but unfortunately nothing good will happen either.

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  11. Friendship is a growing tree that shows his beautiful flowers through seasons; it can be hited by winds gust and storm but by the power of friendship it can resist forever.

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  12. Determination is not a quality exclusive to people of clear purpose: given a choice between two mountains, a dreamer will climb the higher one, out of a simple desire to see the sun for longer before it sets.

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  13. Vulnerability is the thorns and petals of a rose still frosted by the ardour of a freezing night of December.

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  14. Grief is almost drowning and slowly learning how to breathe again

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  15. Wisdom is similar to the fruit of a tree; it ripens in the fullness of time.

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  16. Perseverance is when the trees part to form a single road, no matter how bumpy and twisted it is.

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  17. Greed is planted in many souls; it doesn't need a special ground to grow because its seeds germinate in person it touches.

    Thibault Ferveur

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  18. Nowadays, waiting for anything is like being a desert’s flower during a storm, but as abysmal as it seems, the flower will in the end benefit from this uncommon event.

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  19. Freedom is the top of the highest tree, you will try to reach it all your life without seeing that you are chained up to the trunk

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  20. Heart is like rock, if you let the wind of sadness pass, over the time it will be smaller and smaller, at the end there will be nothing more.

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  21. Honesty, respect and truthfulness are the seed and water to any flowering relationship.

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  22. Love can be as fickle as leaves on an autumn tree or as strong as oaken roots on midsummer's day.
    -A.J. Cobra Branco

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  23. An oak can feel strong but shouldn't forget that the strongest part of himself, hidden on the ground, feed him when he's starving and keeps him up when the wind blow hard.

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  24. Freedom is like the golden pot of a leprechaun : the source of a wonderful rainbow. It seems really great, but as you'll try to reach the source of that rainbow, you'll waste the rest of your life for a childish dream, because a rainbow is just an illusion.
    Charles B

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  25. Altruism and kindness are the buds of philanthropy.

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  26. Life is like a box of chocolate, you will never know what you'll get.

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  27. Pain is water being given to a plant : too much of it will drown it but just enough will make it stronger.

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  28. Rage is the evilest root; once you let it set up, it can never be totally cut.

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  29. Humans are like wood, they change and get character throughout the years.

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  30. Forgiveness is the fruit of all happiness

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