Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

John Mayer

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Ivan Lendl

Death is the best invention of life.

Steve Jobs

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Victor Hugo

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

Giordano Bruno

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Jodi Picoult

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Robert C. Gallagher

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Jane Austen