Only farmers and summer guests walk on the moss. What they don't know - and it cannot be repeated too often - is that moss is terribly frail. Step on it once and it rises the next time it rains. The second time, it doesn't rise back up. And the third time you step on moss, it dies.


Tove Jansson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Stop complaining and start doing
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ...
K.A. LINDE
I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA
You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN
I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
CASEY STENGEL
Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO
Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA
You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh...
MARY ESSELMAN
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.
MLADEN ĐORđEVIć
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
If you plan of helping you don't need of saying it, act on it.
ANN MARIE AGUILAR
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN
The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS
Moss is Moss, and everyone in the league knows what he's capable of because he's done it for so long...
WILL ALLEN
He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL
Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE
Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
Just do it ! Just don't waste your time learning how to do it !
EPHDAN
If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN
The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
I love my destruction. Cause I still love the cause of my destruction -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno...
GARY F EVANS...
Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY
His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN
It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN
Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself .... ...
ANSHIKA JAIN
The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
DONALD RAY POLLOCK
Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT
The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN ...
SANDRA M. MICHELLE
Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE
If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST)
If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS...
To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS...
She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy.
JAMIE MCGUIRE
Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES
Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS
Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO
I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN
Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES
Don’t stop breathing just because night has fallen! Don't stop breathing just because you are slee...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER
Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER
Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold tha...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
Be curious, ask questions
SOTONYE ANGA
If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
KYLE CHANDLER
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ...
NICOLE KIDMAN
The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
JOHN LEACH
moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
One of my favorite shots was on these, like, lava rocks - but moss was growing on it, and I was lyin...
LUCKY BLUE SMITH
6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:

1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO

More Tove Jansson

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red bo...
TOVE JANSSON
It'd be awful if the world exploded, it's so wonderfully splendid
TOVE JANSSON
All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which...
TOVE JANSSON
When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still la...
TOVE JANSSON
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue pa...
TOVE JANSSON
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the ...
TOVE JANSSON
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural ...
TOVE JANSSON
I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!
TOVE JANSSON
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown...
TOVE JANSSON
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fasc...
TOVE JANSSON
You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.
TOVE JANSSON
My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.
TOVE JANSSON
It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw...
TOVE JANSSON
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
TOVE JANSSON
she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the...
TOVE JANSSON
Есть на свете те, кто остается, и те, кто собирается в пу...
TOVE JANSSON
There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that�...
TOVE JANSSON
We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that co...
TOVE JANSSON
I wish I was more Moomin-minded.
TOVE JANSSON
The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.
TOVE JANSSON
Moominpappa was busy on the verandah, making punch in a barrel. He put in almonds and raisins, lotus...
TOVE JANSSON
Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
TOVE JANSSON
Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.
TOVE JANSSON
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
TOVE JANSSON
It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat ex...
TOVE JANSSON
It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.
TOVE JANSSON
One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm. TOVE JANSSON
Once a year the Hattifatteners collect there before setting out again on their endless foraging expe...
TOVE JANSSON
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obs...
TOVE JANSSON
This has completely disturbed my peace," he complained. "A philosopher should be protected against t...
TOVE JANSSON
Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
TOVE JANSSON
When they reached the top of the hill they turned and looked down at the valley. Moominhouse was jus...
TOVE JANSSON
And here I sit with my stamps in a complete muddle, and nobody has bothered to tell me what it's all...
TOVE JANSSON
People carry their loved ones with them. They are forever present.
TOVE JANSSON
Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in Aug...
TOVE JANSSON
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cli...
TOVE LO
I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then...
TOVE LO
It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put you...
TOVE LO
There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my d...
TOVE LO
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and ...
TOVE LO
Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.
TOVE LO
If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I ...
TOVE LO
I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.
TOVE LO
That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
TOVE LO