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  • #1
    “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

    [Indian Summer]”
    John Howard Bryant

  • #2
    Coco Chanel
    “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #3
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #4
    Mary Oliver
    “Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me"

    Last night
    the rain
    spoke to me
    slowly, saying,

    what joy
    to come falling
    out of the brisk cloud,
    to be happy again

    in a new way
    on the earth!
    That’s what it said
    as it dropped,

    smelling of iron,
    and vanished
    like a dream of the ocean
    into the branches

    and the grass below.
    Then it was over.
    The sky cleared.
    I was standing

    under a tree.
    The tree was a tree
    with happy leaves,
    and I was myself,

    and there were stars in the sky
    that were also themselves
    at the moment,
    at which moment

    my right hand
    was holding my left hand
    which was holding the tree
    which was filled with stars

    and the soft rain—
    imagine! imagine!
    the wild and wondrous journeys
    still to be ours.”
    Mary Oliver, What Do We Know

  • #5
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.”
    Dejan Stojanovic

  • #6
    C. JoyBell C.
    “I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #7
    Danzy Senna
    “It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”
    Danzy Senna

  • #8
    Alice Steinbach
    “I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.”
    Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

  • #9
    David Nicholls
    “Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!”
    David Nicholls, Us

  • #10
    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms



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