Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

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

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.

You have what it takes to finish excellently if you strive toward it

Only a changed person can live according to the law.

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

Happy Friday! Happiness begins with a loving heart! Open your heart and share time with those who warm your heart and make you smile!