“Come with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.”
"There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?"
- Mary Oliver
Love
"to live in this world / you must be able / to do three things / to love what is mortal; / to hold it / against your bones knowing / your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, / to let it go"
- Mary Oliver
Love
"It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world."
- Mary Oliver
Awareness
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
- Mary Oliver
Awareness
"It is a serious thing–just to be alive–on this fresh morning–in this broken world."
- Mary Oliver
Awareness
"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