Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.  ~Chinese Proverb

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Basho

Men always want to be a woman’s first love—women like to be a man’s last romance.

Oscar Wilde

Success seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.  They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

—Conrad Hilton

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Thomas Appleton

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

Mark Twain

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that she is someone today.

Stacia Tauscher

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes,
Bending beneath the invisible west-wind’s sighs.

Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh–The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan

“Writing is thinking on paper.”

William Zinsser

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

John Keats

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

Willa Cather

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

“…the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Character is habit long continued.

—Greek Proverb

You are here to enrich the world.

Woodrow Wilson

Female friendships that work are those in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Louise Bernikow

Our first teacher is our own heart.

Cheyenne, Native American Proverb

“He is the king of the South and North, …and Ruler of the East and West.  He walks the outer rim of the world and the Poles melt in his glory.  He draws up the leaf from the seed and covers the land with sweetness.  He is truly the Sun.”

—Mary Poppins Comes Back, by P.L. Travers

“It’s only after a bit of breakfast that I’m able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow the universal favourite. I’m never much of a lad till I’ve engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee.”

P.G. Wodehouse

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

Put gold leaf on the back of a Buddha image.

Meaning: Do good deeds without seeking attention.  

—Thai Proverb

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton