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Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope. (Robert Brault)

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. (William Shakespeare)

'The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.'

Deeds are fruit, words are leaves

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. ~Haniel Long

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way. (Nicolas Boileau)

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return." E.M Forster.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. (Rachel Carlson).

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ~Anatole France