"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

"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

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

"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

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

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

“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

“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

“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)

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

"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

“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