Nature

My soul is in the sky. ~
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

If we have surrounded ourselves with only one set of mirrors, they may see and reflect back only parts of ourselves that they can understand. ~ Julia Cameron

Weather is a great metaphor for life – sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~ Terri Guillemets

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple ~ Scott Adams

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor. ~ Carol Bartz

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it ~ Frank Wedekind

If you never did, you should. ~ Dr. Seuss

You can only be free if I am free ~ Clarence Darrow

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. ~ Carrie Snow

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~ Lily Tomlin

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. ~Amelia Earhart

If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
~ St. Francis De Sales

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and squeeze it… while there is still time. ~ Dale Dauten

Only that day dawns to which we are aware. ~ Thoreau

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~ Winston Churchill

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity. ~ Rose Kennedy

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts ~ C.S. Lewis

Beauty seen is never lost ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures. ~ Irish Proverb

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. ~ Thomas Merton

Have a ripple effect

After a storm comes a calm. ~ Matthew Henry

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. ~ Richard H. Baker

The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Ward Elliot Hour

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~ Ruth Stout

Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- Robert Frost

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving,
living part of the very earth itself.
- Laura Gilpin

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. ~ Pascal

Autumn.. the year’s last, loveliest smile ~ William C. Bryant

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.

~ William Shakespeare

The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you
like the leaves of Autumn.
- John Muir

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. ~Deborah Chaskin

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. ~ John Steinbeck

One drop has just fallen…
It is a precious moment, and one that is full of poignancy. In surrendering to gravity and slipping off the leaf, the drop loses its previous identity and joins the vastness of the water below. We can imagine that it must have trembled before it fell, just on the edge between the known and the unknowable. ~ Osho

You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.

It has to be fun. Whimsy and wonder are important. Keeping things light makes it easier for people to look at them. ~ Heather Kent

A forest bird never wants a cage ~ Henrik Ibsen

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
~ Rachel Carson

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book
known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
–Virginia Woolf

The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

I came where the river
Ran over stones;
My ears knew
An early joy.
And all the waters
Of all the streams
Sang in my veins
That summer day.
- Theodore Roethke, The Waking, 1948

“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought
~ Albert Einstein

Somewhere in time’s own space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow
Some paradise where horses go,
For by the love that guides my pen
I know great horses live again.
~Stanley Harrison

After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. ~Charlotte Gray