Memory is the only friend of grief.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.