Wonder

"The sky knows when it’s time to snow,

Don’t need to teach a seed to grow,

It’s just another ordinary miracle today."

- Sarah McLaghlan

Glow

"What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind..."

– William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Covenant

"By the time you swear you're his,

Shivering and sighing,

And he vows his passion is

Infinite, undying,

Lady, make a note of this —

One of you is lying."

- Dorothy Parker, Unfortunate Coincidence

Change

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France

Broken

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

- Tom Stoppard

Beauty

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

- John Keats

Freedom

"The only true law is that which sets us free."

- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Flight

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!



- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Adumbration

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Warmth

“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Optimism

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." 

- Henri Matisse

Incertitude

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Rise

"Our aspirations are our possibilities"

- Robert Browning

Imagination

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

- Paul Guaguin

Connections

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know

for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

- John Donne, Devotions upon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes - Meditation XVII, 1624

Autumn

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face."
 
- John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal

Green

"Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned."

- Pink Floyd, Green is the Colour

Fall

"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

- Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay

Attraction

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.

What you choose to do with them is up to you."

- Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook

Drift

Some say existence like a Pirouot

And Pirouette, forever in one place,

Stands still and dances, but it runs away;

It seriously, sadly, runs away

To fill the abyss's void with emptiness.

- Robert Frost, West Running Brook

Distance

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

 

- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Tint

"It is not the form that dictates the colour, but the colour that brings out the form."

- Hans Hoffman

Shine

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night."

- Sarah Williams

High Spirits

"You are the music while the music lasts."

-T.S. Eliot

Spaces

“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening, speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”

– Henri Nouwen (Dutch priest and author)

Radiance

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

Love

"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"

- Oscar Hammerstein, Cinderella

Halcyon Days

"Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."

- George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Passion

"And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these..."

- Julian Grenfell

Discernment

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come an understanding of its inadequacy."

- Carl Jung

Daedalus and Icarus

"The sun. It can only be appreciated by its absence.

The longer the days of rain, the more the sun is craved. But too many hot days and the sun overwhelms."

- Robert Greene, The Concise 48 Laws of Power

Tranquillity

"Where we love, is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

- Oliver Wendall Holmes, The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendall Holmes - Complete

Hope

"...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's somethin' inside that they can't get to, that they can't touch. It's yours."

- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

Direction

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

- Anne Frank

Faith

"Do not be afraid - I will save you. I have called you by name - you are mine. When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burnt; the trials that come will not hurt you."

- The Bible, Isiah 43:1-5

Loyalty

"I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love..."

- Cecil Spring-Rice, I Vow to Thee My Country

Malevolence

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Rage of Angels

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

– William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

Blush

"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of colour."

- Hans Hoffman

Alone

 

"Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

Memory

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house;

The brain has corridors surpassing material place."

- Emily Dickinson, Time and Eternity

Harmony

"And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

Repose

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

- Sir John Lubbock

Beyond Horizons

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such speed. It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

- Richard Bach, Illusions

Beginnings

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time..."

- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven