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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.And to make an end is to make a beginning. (T S Eliot).

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." Henry Miller

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! (Charles Dickens)

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost)

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. (Heraclitus)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. (Helen Keller)

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” (Alice M.Swaim)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese proverb)

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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... ( Francis Bacon snr)

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen —Oren Lyons

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green

"...We'll welcome December with tireless hope." (from 'Snow', Sleeping At Last).

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886)

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

“Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.” (Rudyard Kipling)

Noone realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow ~ Lin Yutang

"All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard

"The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. -John Muir"

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." George Elliot

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her; When from every hill of flame, She calls and calls each vagabond by name”

There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, As if it had not been! (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken." (Thomas Wolfe)

"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will." (A.W.Tozer)

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” (J.K.Rowling).

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

'Paradise is seldom recognised as such until it is considered from the outside' Hermann Hesse.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life - - Federico Fellini