When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go… A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.  Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Words are a heavy thing…they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.  Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. David Weatherford

What is without periods of rest will not endure. Ovid