Giving

"If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that."

--Frances Hodgson Burnett

Enough

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know that they are alive in the world with one is enough."

--Nancy Spain

Some of us have never stopped...

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

--C.S. Lewis

Spring

The gentle rain begins to fall,
And nature comes to life again.
Winter retreats,
its frigid days a distant memory,
as it makes way
for Spring.

Friend indeed

"He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If you wake, he cannot sleep;
Thus in every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part."

--Richard Barnfield

The simple life

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in Spring--these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

--John Burroughs

Many mansions...

A million-dollar mansion could never be home.
I would never be at ease in such a place.
And yet, it was nearly my fate to be
in such an empty space as that.
What a grace it is to have escaped it!
For a prison with golden bars and marble walls
is still a prison after all.