The Sun and Her Flowers Quotes

“i stand on the sacrifices of a million women before me thinking what can i do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther -legacy”

“the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else so when you doubt how you were created you doubt an energy greater than us both”

“i notice everything i do not have and decide it is beautiful”

“it was when i stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself i found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole”

“yes it is possible to hate and love someone at the same time i do it to myself every day”

“borders are man-made they only divide us physically don’t let them make us turn on each other -we are not enemies”

“a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done ourselves” -responsibility

“i made change after change on the road to perfection but when i finally felt beautiful enough their definition of beauty suddenly changed what if there is no finish line and in an attempt to keep up i lose the gifts i was born with for a beauty so insecure it can’t commit to itself -the lies they sell”

“i will no longer compare my path to others -i refuse to do a disservice to my life”

“I think love starts here everything else is just desire and projections of all our wants needs and fantasies but those externalities could never work out if we didn’t turn inward and learn how to love ourselves in order to love other people”

“we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view -live fully”

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”

“despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives -sunflowers”

“perhaps we are all immigrants trading one home for another first we leave the womb for air then the suburbs for the filthy city in search of a better life some of us just happen to leave entire countries”

“like the rainbow after the rain joy will reveal itself after sorrow”

“this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom”

when snow falls i long for grass when grass grows i walk all over it when leaves change color i long for flowers when flowers bloom i pick them -unappreciative

“the right one does not stand in your way they make space for you to step forward”

“if i am the longest relationship of my life isn’t it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night -acceptance”

“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she’s already had everything she needs within herself it’s the world that convinced her she did not”