" If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. "

— Rainer Maria Rilke

" Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. "

— Jean Paul Richter

" Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "

— Theodore Roosevelt

" Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful. "

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

" The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we are afraid. "

— Muriel Barbery

" The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. "

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge