And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn, » he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. « And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Mary Balogh

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

Stephenie Meyer

Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

John 16:21 (Bible verse)

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.

Mitch Albom

Friend, we’re traveling together.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
I’m like an ant that’s gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that’s way too big.

Rumi

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

Mickey Gilley

It is relaxing to swim in front of your family and friends. You couldn’t ask for a better meet as far as competition goes and the crowd.

Aaron Peirsol

Lonely table just for one
In a bright and crowded room
While the music has begun
I drink to memories in the gloom
Though the music’s still the same
It has a bittersweet refrain.

Engelbert Humperdink

I’m like an expensive menu… you can look but you can’t afford!

Anna Kournikova

If you close your eyes in a park you will realise that everything you see around is at the same time in the air because everything has a scent and every scent is a misty image!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Definitely dog parks are a fast growing trend accross the country. Many cities view dog parks as beneficial for both dog lovers and non-pet owners.

Lisa Patterson

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

Black Elk

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If I’m going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.

Haruki Murakami

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Tahereh Mafi

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done, you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Lil Wayne

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Henry Rollins

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Your Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming « Wow! What a Ride!”

Hunter S. Thompson

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.

Mitch Albom

The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: Eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Rumi

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.

 Franklin P. Jones

What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don’t yet understand.

Jay Woodman

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.

Alan Alda

Invest in your skin. It is going to represent you for a very long time.

Linden Tyler

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party – let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.

Pippa Middleton

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Clouds that thunder do not always rain.

Armenian Proverb