Patience Strong Quotes

• Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Adversity, Light, Sorrow

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• In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Nature, Garden, Meditation

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• Mientras estamos en febrero, podemos saborear las alegrías de la anticipación. La primavera está en la puerta con el dedo en el pestillo.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Heart, Relax, World

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• Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Positive, Weed, Nature

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• Todo logro noble es un sueño antes de convertirse en realidad, igual que el roble es una bellota antes de ser un árbol.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Sueño, realidad, logro

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• en febrero hay todo que esperar y nada que lamentar.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Regret, February

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Summer, Moving, Autumn

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Giving, Leaving, England

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Memories, Frustration, Garden

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• Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Garden, Rhythm Of Life, Triumph

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• Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Sunshine, Winter, Touching

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Verano, Primavera, Flor

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God’s masterpiece?

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Queens, Flower, Rose

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Acojo con satisfacción el frío otoñal en el aire. Es estimulante. La vida se mueve a otro ritmo. Hay una sensación de cambio en el ambiente y el cambio es bueno en la medida en que evita el estancamiento. Deberíamos cansarnos de un verano que nunca termina.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Summer, Moving, Air

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Septiembre es el mes de la madurez; la cesta amontonada y la gavilla recogida. Es el mes del clímax y la culminación. ¡Septiembre! No me canso de darle vueltas en la cabeza. Tiene calor, profundidad y color. Brilla como el ámbar viejo.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Maturity, Mind, Months

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Si quieres buenas rosas, afila tu cuchillo y endurece tu corazón.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Heart, Knives, Rose

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• ....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Ploughing, Tools, Fundamentals

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• gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Gardening, Pastime

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Struggle, Gardening

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

  Paciencia Fuerte

  Fading Away, Fading, Born

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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