Bears Quote by Robert Penn Warren

“Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own…

— George Orwell

“It is a mistake to believe that the decisive moments of a life when its direction changes for ever must be marked by sentimental…

— Pascal Mercier

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of…

— Edward Everett Hale

“Sometimes life can throw rocks big enough to leave cracks in your soul. You can either hide them or turn the cracks into something…

— R.D. Cole

“There is a kind of crystallization in the circumstances of one’s life. A peculiar turn of mind draws to itself events fitted to its…

— John William Polidori

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

— Carl Sandburg

“There must be more than this, Sarah Boyle thinks, from time to time. What could one do to justify one's passage? Or less ambitiously,…

— Pamela Zoline

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Every crack is also an opening. When in the midst of great change, it is helpful to remember how a chick is born. From…

— Mark Nepo

“Life was filled with so many twists and turns, like the sides of a prism, giving off light; what seemed wrong before seemed almost…

— Mary Campisi

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors.…

— Oscar Wilde

“--while the sun and wind played gently in its spreading branches; the bells of the Donskoy monastery would sometimes float across--tranquil and sad--and I…

— Anonymous