Astral Health

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. – Rose Schneiderman 

  

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still. – Thomas Moore 

  

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. – Emma Goldman 

  

Love is like the wild-rose briar; 

Friendship is like the holly-tree. 

The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, 

But which will bloom 

most constantly? – Emily Bronte 

  

But ne’er the rose without the thorn. – Robert Herrick 

  

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, 

but that which bears the finest roses. – Henry Van Dyke 

  

Peace Be Still Sam 

“Lavender, lavender that makes your linens sweet,
The hawker brings his basket down the sooty streets”
 
Unknown
 
 “He (singer Prince) reeks of lavender. It turned me on, actually.”
 
Madonna
 
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender” 
 
Alice Walker
 
“Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly
 Lavender Green
 When I am Kind Dilly Dilly
 You shall be Queen.”
 
Unknown
 
Peace Be Still Sam