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

— Muriel Barbery

" Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound. "

— Edwin Curran

" New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. "

— Lao Tzu

" Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. "

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. "

— Alfred Noyes

" We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life. "

— Jenova Chen