When I was little, I picked up a flower and put it in a vase. After a few days, it died. I asked my Mom why and she said: “You can’t force a flower to thrive somewhere it doesn’t belong to.” And now, I have realized that people are like that too.
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer| It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.
