Oh heart, if one should say ...

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.