Stephen June

Though the circular round-and-round
of routine be the bulk of life's affairs,
make an occasional jutting diversion
- of fun, love, or something that will outlast you -
so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

~Destin Figuier

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.

~From the television show Scrubs

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.

~Sara Teasdale