Quotes to inspire and reflect

Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may be a theatrical “encore.”

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

The experience of drought and dust storms remains central to the psychology of the prairie west; more than the intermittent affluence of postwar decades, it tints a westerner’s outlook on life. He continues to live in next year country, where he smokes a pack of hope a day.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees / Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.

April hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.