Self, Sojin

I’m not what I used to be. Where am I…?

- PARK Sojin (1986- ), Girl’s Day from Sojin’s Cyworld Entry

Attitude, Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

~ Betty Smith (1896-1972)

Ideals, Carl Schurz

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)

Morning, Takayuki Ikkaku

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

- Takayuki IKKAKU

Dokdo, SHIMABITO Shiori

韓国領であるため、独島って言うんですよ.

- 島人 栞

It's called Dokdo because it belongs to Korea.

- SHIMABITO Shiori (島人 栞)

http://dokdo.mofa.go.kr

Art, Andy Warhol

Land really is the best art.

- Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Rejoicing, Book of Psalms

This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice in it and be glad.

- Psalms 118:24

http://www.nccbuscc.org/

Paradise, Aaron Hotchner

Aaron Hotchner: Thomas Fuller wrote, "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

- Aaron Hotchner, Criminal Minds [4x04 Paradise (Oct 22, 2008)]

Paradise, Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Autumn, Eric Sloane

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

- Eric Sloane (1905-1985)

Universe, Jorge Luis Borges

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" in Other Inquisitions (1952), as translated by Will Fitzgerald

October, Thomas Bailey Aldrich

October turned my maple's leaves to gold;
The most are gone now; here and there one lingers.
Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold,
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), October

Wisdom, Western Proverb

Every cloud has a silver lining.

- Western Proverb

守得云开见月明

- 西諺

Universe, Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God’s son.

- Dejan Stojanovic (1959- ), in The Sun Watches the Sun (1999) “God’s Son” (Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”)

Autumn, P. D. James

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

- P. D. James (1920- ), [A Taste for Death Published 1986. Page 373]

Universe, Henri Bergson

[L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.

- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Universe

Summer, William Carlos Williams

In summer, the song sings itself.

- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Universe, Albert Einstein

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

August, William Cullen Bryant

The August cloud * * * suddenly
Melts into streams of rain.

- William Cullen Bryant, Sella.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/August

Universe, Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

July, Lord Byron

The English winter — ending in July,
To recommence in August.

- Lord Byron (1788-1824), Don Juan (1818-24), Canto 13, Stanza 42.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/July

Summer, Henry James

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

― Henry James (1843-1916)

Farewell, William Shakespeare

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Universe, Laughter

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

- Jean Houston (1937- )

Rest, Sir J. Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

- Sir J. Lubbock [The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation]

Happiness, Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

- Aristotle (384BC-322BC)

Universe, Bernard Bailey

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

- Bernard Bailey (1916-1996)

Summer, Celia Thaxter

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

- Celia Thaxter (1835-1894)

Health, Thich Nhat Hanh

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

- Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- )

June, Charles A. Aïdé

Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the ländler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.

- Charles A. Aïdé, Danube River.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/June

Universe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Summer, Wallace Stevens

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Spring, George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

May, Helen Hunt Jackson

O month when they who love must love and wed.

- Helen Hunt Jackson, Verses, May.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/May

Takeshima, Norio Kuboi

We confirmed that South Korean residents are living on Takeshima, and that the islets are being guarded. It is clear that South Korea is in a position of being able to claim sovereignty over the islets.

- Norio Kuboi, a professor at Momoyama Gakuin University (also known as St. Andrew’s University) on May 24, 2013.

Spring, Diane Frolov

Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

- Diane Frolov

May, Love

He has a very hard heart that does not love in May.

- French Proverb

Bliss, Happiness

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

- Louise Bogan (1897–1970), US-american Poet

Universe, Baruch Spinoza

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Moon, George Carlin

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

- George Carlin (1937-2008)

Spring, William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (I, iii, 84-87)

Spring, Western Proverb

April Showers bring May flowers.

- Western Proverb

Friend, Western Proverb

A life wthout a friend is a life without a sun.

- Western Proverb

Spring, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances
Hodgson
Burnett

"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like...?"
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."

― Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), The Secret Garden (1911)

"봄이 오고 있을까요?" 그는 말했다. "어떤 모습일까요?"
"그건 비가 오고 있는데 햇빛이 비치는 거고, 태양이 빛나는데 비가 오고 있는 것 같죠."

- 프랜시스 호지슨 버넷 (Frances Hodgson Burnett) 소설가, 비밀의 화원

Spring, Henry Timrod

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

- Henry Timrod (1828–1867)

Spring, Christina Rossetti

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Spring, Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)

Spring, David Assael

Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.

- David Assael

Hope, Armenian Proverb

Արևն ամպի տակ չի մնայ:
Transliteration: Arevn ampi tak chi mna.
Translation: The sun won't stay behind the cloud.

- Armenian proverb

Meaning: The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.
Književnost. 1986.

English equivalent: A lie has short legs.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Armenian_proverbs
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Proverbs