"Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives".

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...” ~ A. Edward Newton

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.” ~ T.S. Eliot

"Oh to be a fly on the wall or better yet a flower!"

"After a lifetime of searching for the fountain of youth she retired to her humble garden to see out the days in peace and reflect. In a moment of time fleeting and brief an apple fell from the friendly shade into a jug of water before her. As if time stood still she glimpsed the very truth she h...

Whispers of childhood from summer gone by, warm breeze and laughter a glimmer in the eye." ~ Jon Kane Houldsworth

"Life is but a game of chance, no matter how skilfully you throw the chips they will always land where they may" ~ anon

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” ~ Napoléon Bonaparte

"Never let a swing hang still or memory will fade away and the world might surely end." ~ Unknown

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure” ~ Paulo Coelho

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.” ~ Charles Dickens

“Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.” ~ J.D. Salinger

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ Lao Tzu

“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!” ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” ~ Terry Pratchett

"Be at ease with yourself, like an old ship at anchor shrugging off uncertainty with the tide" ~ JKH (Timeless Pictures)

"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds". ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ~ Pablo Picasso

"Before we can break down the borders of the world around us we must break down the barriers of the world within us." ~ JKH, Timeless Pictures

“Never confuse movement with action.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” ~ Lao Tzu

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” ~ Astrid Lindgren

“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ” ~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.” ~ Elvis Presley

“Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies
Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder:
And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyes
Draw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder” ~ Lionel Pigot Johnson

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.” ~ Dejan Stojanovic

“Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.” ~ Feroz Bham

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony." ~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.” ~ Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.” ~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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“Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...” ~ Van Morrison