If you can’t build with them, don’t chill with them.

Genereux Philip

A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman’s job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

Charles Waterman.

With less sex energy, less intelligence exists; with more sexual energy, more intelligence, because sex is a deep search to uncover, not only bodies, not only the opposite sex body, but everything that is hidden.

Osho

Sunset is like a firework; when the firework dies, it creates dozens of other beauties: When the sun dies, it creates shining stars, mysterious moonlight, and gleamy lighthouses!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes – I can never resist a new scent.

Lisa Snowdon

Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introduced to that day with Ali and Kamal was the Beirut of its people. You take different groups, put them on top of each other, simmer for a thousand years, keep adding more and more strange tribes, simmer for another few thousand years, salt and pepper with religion, and what you get is a delightful mess of a stew that still tastes delectable and exotic, no matter how many times you partake of it.

Rabih Alameddin

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

Lauren Oliver

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others…Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

Alain de Botton

Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self – – like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

Sylvia Plath

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Gandhi

It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: ‘there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress – what did I know – until now?

Unica Zürn

Life is a dark cave, Jesus is the flash light, the bible is the batteries and your will to turn the flashlight on is your faith.

Eric Steiert

Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?

Jack Campbell

Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.

Shekhar Kapur

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Alain de Botton

Flowers are a universal language that every bride understands.

Colin Cowie

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And I must follow, if I can.
Pursuing it with eager feet
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Edgar Bergen

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

Gibran Khalil Gibran

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Rumi

Rain rain go away
Come again another day
I sung this poem yesterday
That’s y rain come today

Azahar Uddin

In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear.

Flynn Meaney

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

I love you a bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck
A hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap
A barrel and a heap and I’m talkin’ in my sleep

Song by Doris Day

Cooking is so popular today because it’s the perfect mix of food and fun.

Emeril Lagasse

We are not the makers of history, we are made by history.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Christmas spirit will elude you until a selfless love consumes you and the joy of giving moves you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I’m not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

Sylvia Plath