And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

Thunder only happens when it's raining, Players only love you when they're playing, Say... Women... they will come and they will go; When the rain washes you clean... you'll know.

Stevie Nicks

Chairmen Meow deserves me every effort.

Cassandra Clare

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Joseph Conrad

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35

Bible

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Source Unknown

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Hilaire Belloc

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

William Penn

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Cate Blanchett

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Johann von Goethe