“We will love you completely. For however long you’re in our lives, for whatever capacity, we will love you to the very best of our ability. It’s just in our nature.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“It was one of the October days when to breathe the air is like drinking wine, and every touch of the wind against one’s face is a caress.”— Sarah Orne Jewett, wordsnquotes.com
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“To my fellow hikers: that noise I made when the butterfly came toward my face was a terrified shriek of delight.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Such a great weekend -- went out to the beach and binge-watched the sunset.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“If you stop and pay attention, every place is a cathedral, every breath a prayer. No matter what you believe in, there are so many things to worship.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Outside the window Sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I’m human.”— Wang Xiaoni, theguardian.com
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I wonder if the trees, lined up one by one, get annoyed with each other after a while.”— Elise Filka, hope.edu
“they loved us, those stars. They must have, anyway, for they did what no one did, what even we could not: they saw us and spared us.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“I know about the stars. That night they made shadows of us, made us bigger, wilder than we were--”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“they leaned into everything: cigarettes and stories, nips of whiskey, / laughter like blackbirds rising across a white sky.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com