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“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.” ― Voltaire

“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ― Eckhart Tolle

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi

'...one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing...'

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. Nelson Mandela

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ― Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” ― Jane Austen,

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells