Winter Chill...
Quotes galore
(2006-05-24, 11:28 p.m.)
As some of you may know, I have a thing for quotes. I keep them in a little book, and everytime I find a new one, I put it in there. Since things were pretty quiet today, I thought I would dazzle you with some quotes...

Words are like leaves, some wither each year. -Horace

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus

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

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. -Vince Poscente

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs

By words the mind is winged. -Aristophanes

Shadow owes its birth to light. -John Gay

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. -Carl Schurz

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. -Mistinguett

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. -William Blake

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!