Who knew?

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen

Harmony

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn - "An Easter Hymn"

Togetherness

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.~Johann Schiller

Awakening

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Impermanence

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki

It's about time

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Transparent

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? ~Henry David Thoreau