Aim

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Music & Cats

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

To the top

"Stick to what you started on, and perhaps you will reach the top, or a point which you alone can tell is not the top."
Lucio Anneo Seneca

Calm lake

Beauty has its own heavenly language, loftier than the voices of tongues and lips. It is a timeless language, common to all humanity, a calm lake that attracts the singing rivulets to its depth and makes them silent. Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from the holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives color and scent to a flower. Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

Kahlil Gibran