Water

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields

Memories

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Blazing hearth

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh

Trees

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Yellow

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent van Gogh

The eye

It is the eye which makes the horizon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughing Flowers in Freedom

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
- Malcolm De Chazal

A silent song.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it
has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Salt water.

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen

A sky of promises.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
- Arabian Proverb

Reflected images.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
- Jean Cocteau

I can push the grass apart

God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart!
- Edna St.Vincent Millay

An affection for a great city

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the
neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Walking with the trees.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
- Karle Wilson Baker

In this windy place

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Doors

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

Appetite for variety

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Marcus Fabius Quintilia

Expectation of the dawn

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

Staircase to heaven

My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo

A glory of a new day

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

One day left

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

No matter where it's going. As long as we go together.

Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
Edna St.Vincent Millay

Time.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus

The desire for desiring.

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

The closest distance.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Curved bodies. Emotional bodies.

Curves are so emotional.
Mondrian

My beloved's eye, what are you telling me?

A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Irish proverb

I have promises to keep

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

Trees

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.
Jens Jensen

Cats

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett

Read the World

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine

A smell of emotion

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine