life and love

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." -Victor Hugo

"In life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." -Marc Chagall

wings

"Courage is not the absense of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redman

Cupcake

"nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - Sir William Van Horne

snow

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -Lao Tzu

Matthews in the Snow!

"I shall start at the beginning. Though of course the beginning is never where you think it is. Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think that the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born... Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole." - Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale