There are always flowers

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse

when the clock stops does time come to life.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner

free to go whenever I choose.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.
- Marina Tsvetaeva

The sea complains.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
- Alexander Smith

A roof and four walls of the story

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
John Berger

Sure as a camera

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck

Nothing is too high

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Horace

Trust

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom

Sleepy faces

The street awakens. She looks, exhausted
With the mute windows' sullen eyes,
On sleepy faces, red from the cold,
That with thoughts chase the stubborn sleep away.
....
Marina Tsvetaeva

The dawn

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson

Trees

Trees are your best antiques.
Alexander Smith

Infinity.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rainy.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
- Jean Paul

A sunrise is born.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
- William Faulkner

I have been here before.

I have been here before.
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Combinations.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
- Charles Baudelaire

Smiles

A smile you sent, will always return.
- Indian Proverb

Painted Sunlight.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
- Edward Hopper

Easter Sunday

Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Luisa and Thinker wish you all a happy Easter!

Squares full of life

In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.
Charles Baudelaire

Rest

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch

Only vegetables are happy.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
William Faulkner

The world is a playground

The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.
Natalie Kocsis

Like the waves

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

Rise and touch the sky

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies.
Emily Dickinson

'Don't you dare!'

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Too long

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Willa Cather

A Tree Trail.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pieces of Heaven on Earth.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
- Jules Renard

Planting in my soul.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- Thomas Merton