A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

A smile that hides the pain within the heart soothes the hearts of those who behold it. So smile even through difficult times. - Mufti Ismail Menk

Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɴᴏ ᴀɴsᴡᴇʀ. Tʜᴀᴛ's ᴡʜᴀᴛ Bᴜᴅᴅʜɪsᴍ sᴀʏs. Tʜᴇ Vᴏɪᴅ, ᴏʙʟɪᴠɪᴏɴ, ɴᴏ ᴀɴsᴡᴇʀ. Tᴏ ʙᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ sᴛᴀᴛᴇ ɪs ᴀɴ ᴇɴʟɪɢʜᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ sᴛᴀᴛᴇ. - Hᴀʀʀʏ Dᴇᴀɴ Sᴛᴀɴᴛᴏɴ

Hᴏᴡᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴅɪꜰꜰɪᴄᴜʟᴛ ʟɪꜰᴇ ᴍᴀʏ sᴇᴇᴍ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ᴅᴏ ᴀɴᴅ sᴜᴄᴄᴇᴇᴅ ᴀᴛ. - Sᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ Hᴀᴡᴋɪɴɢ

Lɪꜰᴇ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ᴀ ᴘʟᴏᴛ; ɪᴛ's ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴛᴀɪʟs. - Jᴏᴅɪ Pɪᴄᴏᴜʟᴛ, Vᴀɴɪsʜɪɴɢ Aᴄᴛs

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

Tʜᴇ ᴘʀɪɴᴄɪᴘᴀʟ ᴀᴄᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴀɢᴇ ɪs ᴛᴏ ᴇɴᴅᴜʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜsᴛᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀs ᴅᴏɢɢᴇᴅʟʏ ʀᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋ ᴛʜᴇᴍ. - Tʜᴏᴍᴀs Aǫᴜɪɴᴀs

I ᴀᴍ ɪɴ ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀ ᴏꜰ ᴀɴɪᴍᴀʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛs ᴀs ᴡᴇʟʟ ᴀs ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ʀɪɢʜᴛs. Tʜᴀᴛ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ʙᴇɪɴɢ. - Aʙʀᴀʜᴀᴍ Lɪɴᴄᴏʟɴ

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible! Cit. Patrick Snow

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. Cit. John Mayer

I shine with love and light in every moment. ~ Anonymous

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. Cit. Walt Whitman

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. - William Morris

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. - Charles Baudelaire

Colors are the smiles of nature.

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light! Cit. Mehmet Murat ildan

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

By discovering nature, you discover yourself. - Maxime Lagacé

The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

If a street has a spirit, no matter how narrow it is, we can breathe comfortably over there.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.

Anyone can be sad, but the melancholy remains the prerogative of the upper souls.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons. Cit.Vladimir Nabokov

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. 

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside.It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail. Cit. Shannon L. Alder

Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. - Ron Hall

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Art needs solitude or misery or passion. Lukewarm zephyrs wilt it. It is a rock-flower flourishing by stormy blasts in stony soil.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. - Leo Tolstoy

The dog is the only mammal that can truly live with us, and not just next to us.

The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness.

Ignorance is a fine line that separates right and wrong. - Yash Thakur

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. - Joel Edgerton

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

We all live under the same sky, but not all have the same horizon.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it. - Mark Z. Danielewski

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

In a time of destruction, create something. - Maxine Hong Kingston

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

There is no art form that does not teach us about the flower.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Insects have good colour vision.

If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly aquire new meanings and different textures.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.