Quote by Nelson Mandela

“The sky was wide and inviting, and the grass was cool and sweetly refreshing under my bare feet as I walked across the undulating…

— Susanna Kearsley

“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and continuous rain,…

— Marcel Proust

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more…

— Haruki Murakami

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the…

— Roman Payne

“As I walked down the sidewalk, it felt like everything around me was listening. The asphalt heard my thoughts, and the building around me…

— Burbuqe Raufi

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than…

— Katherine Mansfield

“I know that western sky. Sometimes when I'm alone painting, a blind lifts and I let my mind drift back. I remember walking out…

— Dawn Tripp

“Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust…

— Elizabeth Enright

“Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow. Would the valleys were…

— Kahlil Gibran

“I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the…

— Jodi Baker

“I wanted to see the light change on the horizon, to notice the pinky-orange alpenglow illuminating the mountains as the day fell away and…

— Lucy Fuggle

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad