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  • #1
    Alfred Wainwright
    “Clouds are the most transient of nature's creations. They come out of a clear sky, disintegrate before your eyes, vanish. You never see the same cloud twice. Every moment of its brief existence brings a change, a change of form or tint or texture; but its beauty remains constant to the end. The beauty of the clouds is there for us to see every day, if we are not too busy to look up....”
    Alfred Wainwright

  • #2
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
    “Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
    Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

  • #3
    Beryl Bainbridge
    “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
    Beryl Bainbridge

  • #4
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #5
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #6
    Victor Hugo
    “Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    W.H. Auden
    “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
    Till China and Africa meet,
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street”
    W.H. Auden

  • #9
    Alan Paton
    “I have always found that actively loving
    saves one from a morbid preoccupation
    with the shortcomings of society.”
    Alan Paton

  • #10
    Jarod Kintz
    “I only know I was born on March 5th because someone told me. I don’t remember myself. So it’s fact based on secondhand information and trust.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #11
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks

  • #12
    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #13
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #14
    Alan Bradley
    “Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky. ”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why it's simply impassible!
    Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
    Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #16
    Thaddeus of Vitovnica
    “Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”
    Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
    Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

  • #18
    O. Henry
    “No friendship is an accident. ”
    O. Henry, Heart of the West

  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #20
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #21
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #22
    Dr. Seuss
    “How did it get so late so soon?”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #25
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

  • #26
    A.A. Milne
    “I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
    "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #27
    Tennessee Williams
    “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
    Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

  • #28
    Jim Henson
    “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
    Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets

  • #29
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #30
    Christopher  Morley
    “If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”
    Christopher Morley



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