life is but a dream

"row, row, row your boat,

gently down the stream.

merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

life is but a dream."

perfect faith

"the reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings"

- j.m. barrie


(vintage bird illustration from the graphics fairy
http://thegraphicsfairy.com/)

the sea

"my soul is full of longing

for the secret of the sea,

and the heart of the great ocean

sends a thrilling pulse through me."

- henry wadsworth longfellow

raining

"don't take your toys inside just because it's raining"

- cher

belief

"it is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable"

- maya angelou

father

"he promised us that everything would be okay. i was a child, but i knew that everything would not be okay. that did not make my father a liar. it made him my father."

- jonathan safran foer

absence

"absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on air."

- gail caldwell