I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.
– Tomas Transtrmer
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- The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter – Haruki Murakami
- Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? – Magenta Periwinkle
- There is an oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become an oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop – Saji Ijiyemi
- The oak tree is inside the acorn seed, but the acorn seed will never become the oak tree unless it is willing to grow and develop – Saji Ijiyemi
- Or maybe we’ll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now. – Veronica Roth
- I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities, – CS Lewis
- Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. – Elyn R Saks
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- I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . – Jennifer Haigh
- It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That’s how I come to know trees fear man. – Alice Walker
- He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. – Henry Van Dyke
- Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul’s true beauty. – Molly Friedenfeld
- You can’t move forward until you stop looking back. – Tomas Stanger
- Whether I scare some people or not, I don’t give a hoot. If you’re not scared by now, nothing can scare you. – Tomas Schuman
- Every time I see you I fall in love all over again. – Tomas Modi
- When people divide, things end. Therefore: I won’t divide because I don’t want this to end. – Daniel C Tomas
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
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- Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows. – Northrop Frye
- A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them. – George W Bush
- I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself. – Alberto Caeiro
- She faces him, trying to take a breath that’s long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won’t see them in her face. – MR Carey
- The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. – Flannery OConnor
- Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. – GK Chesterton
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. – Edward Abbey
- Tree is tree. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- If the tree doesn’t hug you back, it’s not a problem with the tree, it’s a problem with your heart. – Donald L Hicks
- The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree……unless that tree’s growing on top of a hill. – John DePrey
- A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- We spring from one great tree of life; when the root of the tree is watered with love, we all thrive. – Janet Autherine
- A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When you healed this tree, I felt like the leaves waved and made gentle sounds. Maybe the tree was saying thank you. – Korharu
- Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE! – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
- You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. – Malcolm X
- If you cut a tree down make sure you also cut the roots for if not a new tree will come – Hamza Akhtar
- Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes. – Janet Evanovich
- If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself. – Craig D Lounsbrough