“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
"Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"Fate measures us perhaps with the breadth of being, Which is strange to us; Just think how much distance there is between a girl and a man When she is avoiding him or thinking of him."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love
"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