"For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously."
George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker

"The fans know their football, you can't kid them."
Richard Gough

"The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh."
Robert Ludlum

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
Art Linkletter

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
Laurence J. Peter

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda

"Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun."
Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Henry David Thoreau

"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."
John Comenius, 17th century philosopher

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

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home."
Author Unknown

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elisabeth Foley

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
Leo Burnett

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."
Palmer Sondreal

"There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday."
Robert Nathan, 'So Love Returns'

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."
Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death," Afterthoughts, 1931

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
Gregory David Roberts, The first para of his book "Shantaram"

"A year has passed.
The journey has been good.
Another year starts; I will enjoy this sail too.
I know. I would."

Enjoy your visits,
Arun

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
Robertson Davies

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
Hans Christian Andersen

"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow."
Alfred De Musset (French Romantic poet and playwright, 1810-1857)

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
Clifton Fadiman

"...Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted, one moment,
Would you capture it, or just let it slip, yo...

...The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo ...

...You can do anything you set your mind to man. ..."
Eminem

"The most beautiful view is the one I share with you."
Author Unknown

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
Ben Okri (Nigerian author who uses magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in his country, 1959)