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