Only with winter-patience can we bringThe deep desired, long-awaited spring.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

James Baldwin

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

Mary Oliver

Beauty comes from the inside.

Kathy Ireland

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Augustine of Hippo

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Eric Butterworth

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Eden Phillpotts

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

William Wordsworth

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

Lil Wayne

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Herbert Spencer

Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

Ursula K. LeGuin