Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile. William Cullen Bryant

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body,
answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. Kahlil Gibran

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“”Style” is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma.
Fashion is something that comes after style.” John Fairchild

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through
the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms,
Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin

McFaddin Beach, along the Texas Gulf coast

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
Edward Abbey

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love,
but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. Pearl Buck

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if
you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse…
If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
Buddha (563 BC – 483 BC), The Dharmapada