How did it happen that their lips came together?  How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?  A kiss, and all was said.

- Victor Hugo

Truth is one; paths are many.

- Sri Swami Satchidananda

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings.  It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

- George Eliot

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.  - St. Francis of Assisi

The trees, wrapped in their ethereal blankets, are cradled by winsome sky.

- Ellen Trump