With quiet eyes...

"Who loves the rain,
And loves his home,
And looks on life with quiet eyes,
Him will I follow through the storm,
And at his hearth-fire keep me warm:
Nor hell nor heaven shall that soul surprise
Who loves the rain,
And loves his home,
And looks on life with quiet eyes."

--Frances Shaw

Where...

"A crowd is not company, faces are just a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

--Sir Francis Bacon

Friend

"Of all the heavenly treasures that mortal men commend,
what trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?"

--Victor Hugo

Wings

"The two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith."

--Stanislas Xavier-Touchet

Best

"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."

--Robert Louis Stevenson

Time again

"It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience..."

-George Gissing

My note: But can't it be true: that everything old can be new once more, and so time may again pass in pauses as it did in childhood? Time, and time again, it is through the fresh eyes of innocence that we gain the most valuable experience. How precious is each moment then, each one a jewel from the hand of God! To be like a little child, to look upon everything as a wonder, is truly the work of a lifetime. God grant that I may always look upon the world with childlike eyes.

Nooks

"The love of learning,
The sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow