“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal–that is your success. Henry David Thoreau

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales

Riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Oh there are strange rivers, rivers that we cannot see. There are strange rivers who know our destiny. There are strange rivers who brought your love to me. Written by John Stewart, sung by Joan Baez

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer – say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them… Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expect. Hugh Prather

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. Marie Beyon Ray