If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
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