“Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.” 

 

― Walt Disney Company

 

 



“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons

 

 



“Just because a path never existed, doesn't mean that it isn't there...”

― Lionel Suggs

 

 



“If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely.”

― Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This

 

 



  “In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

 

 - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

 



There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. 

 

~Joseph Conrad

 

 



“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” 

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

 

 

...we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless -

 

- Paul Bowles.

 

 



Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived -

 

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

 

 



"I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,
If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
And crocus fires are kindling one by one:
Sing robin, sing:
I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring."

- Christina Rossetti 

 

 



Become aware of your aloneness — which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.

 

- Osho

 

 



Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes, we have no choice at all.

 

- Neil Gaiman

 



I believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

 

- Susan Cain

 

 

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

- James Keller

 



Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

 



I have never found a companion who was so companionable as solitude.

 - Henry David Thoreau

 



You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

 

- Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)

 

 



There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

 

- Willa Cather

 



 

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 

 



“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

― Charles William Eliot

 

 



Page from a Victorian Writing Journal, dated 1897...

 

 



“Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Anduril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. "Elendil!" he cried."I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the elfstone, Dunadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

 

 

 

Drawing by me. :)



“He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

 

 



"Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released."

- Mirabel Osler 

 



There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

 

- Dan Harmon

 

 



“The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

 

 



“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final statement after a lifetime of scratching out divisions upon the ground, over ephemeral time itself, merely to give their short journeys meaning, to tell others “I was here – do not forget me, do not let my brief blast dissolve into nothingness.”

― Rob Bignell

 

 



“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil...”

― Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras

 

 



“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

 

- Scott Adams

 



“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?”

 
― Bill Watterson

 

 



"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."

- Gertrude S. Wister

 

 



Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

 

- Swatch, Always Now, 1997

 

 



Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of our lives.

 

- William Dement

 

 



“None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time” 

 

― Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
 



"Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream."

- Barbara Winkler

 

 



Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.

 

- Unknown

 

 

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

 

- C. S. Lewis

 



Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

 

- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

 



"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

-William C. Bryant
 

 

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

― Edgar Allan Poe