"Finishing a marathon changes your life forever."
  ~~Hal Higdon

"The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;
So rich she cannot hide from view, But covers all the bank with blue."
  ~~Dora Read Goodale

"..even the insects in my path are not loafers, but have their special errands".
  ~~Henry David Thoreau, 1906

"Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers."
  ~~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

"Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate."
  ~~J. R. R. Tolkien

​"I take my vacation on the combine and tractor."
  ~~Jon Tester

​“She held a bluebell up to the light; and Dunstan could not but observe that the color of sunlight glittering through the purple crystal was inferior in both hue and shade to that of her eyes."
  ~~Neil Gaiman, Stardust

​"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road"
  ~~Henry Ward Beecher

​"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."
  ~~Rumi

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise."
  ~~Henry David Thoreau