Behind every cloud is another cloud

-Judy Garland

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;

I know not where I am nor what I do.

-William Shakespeare

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days,

take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

-Stephen Baker

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted,

bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

-Alice Walker

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind

the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and

should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

-Norman Maclean

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

-Richard Whately

Winter: There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

-Ruth Stout

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency

they're going to catch you in next.

-Franklin P. Jones

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast -

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

-Eddie Cantor

"Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

-Dr William Butler, 17th century English writer

"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"

-Anne Frank