“The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his tent, flashing his helm on the world.”
""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Herman Melville
Adversity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature