“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein
” Maybe nothing gold can stay, but when crimson departure of day breeds stars on the heels of resolution… it feels a lot like hope.” ~Crystal DeTemple
“Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom…but only if you plant the seeds.” ― Steve Maraboli
“One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter” — Lewis Carroll
“You used to be much more…”muchier.” You’ve lost your muchness.” ― Lewis Carroll
“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” ― Emilio Estevez
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ― John Lubbock
“As if the natural world’s been turned upside down.” Lord Mandrake.
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” ― Jack Kerouac
“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!” ― C. JoyBell C.
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” ― George R.R. Martin
“Sometimes you can’t see the magic that dreams and wishes are made of… until you’re as low as you can possibly get.” ~Crystal DeTemple
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” ― John Ruskin
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.” ― John Muir
~Crystal DeTemple
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” ― Cornelia Funke
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?” ― Garth Nix
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” ― Henry Ellis
“What are men to rocks and mountains?” ― Jane Austen
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” ― Langston Hughes
“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” ― Wallace Stevens
“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” ― Mark Twain
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” ― Paul Klee
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“She doesn’t understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings – they’re helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.” ― Sonya Hartnett
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie
“I could gaze into the mirror until my eyes glazed over and never see so deeply inside myself, as I do when the day exhales… and all the colors of the universe sigh into my soul.” ~Crystal DeTemple