The Caprices Of Summer

Earth, does it amaze you? How birds come down from the sky to walk on you?

I saw a man walking with his chin on his chest. His thoughts were weighing him down.

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

The liars don't worry me. It's the people who think they know the truth.

I'm not a thief because no one has anything I want.

Love hurts because you think that's what love is.

Everything the candle knows it learned in the dark.

Thought should be less profound and more human.

I made my life my dream so I could live it.

Between the planting and the harvest lie all the caprices of summer.

If a fool plants a beautiful garden, is he still a fool?

Pretend to be ticklish if it makes you laugh.

Even when you dial the wrong number there's someone at the other end.

Like a surfer only the next wave interests me.

Truth Is A Bubble...

Carpenters are paid to build houses, not to explain how houses are built.

Expect the hill and the valley to see things differently.

The moon you see is not the moon you saw.

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

Beginnings do not divulge their ends.

The love of life begins with the love of one person.

Every drop that falls in the ocean becomes the ocean.

We learn from our possessions that they're never enough.

Forgive me my foolish beliefs, as I forgive your foolish beliefs.

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

Even the camel with its huge nostrils can only take one breath at a time.

To be this happy, friendly person, that's all.

Artists pass on their dreams.

Wisdom has learned everything from chance.

When I reached the top of the ladder I was no taller than before.

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing.

Even an inchworm gets where it's going.

We write while sleepwalking and revise when awake.

That the sun has burnt you is no argument against it.

Let everything exist. No need to pick and choose.

The pursuit of unhappiness always succeeds.

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

It's not worth staying up all night just to paint masterpieces.

Chaos is any order opposed to freedom.

When something is done for nothing it's done with the highest purpose in mind.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Obedience corrupts; absolute obedience corrupts absolutely.

The spider spinning its web is absorbed, but not self-absorbed.

Build your castle of dreams, but don't live in it.

What we have in common is also part of our uniqueness.

The true ladder of success is the one lying on the ground.

There is no fact that is not at least part fiction.

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

Even the bullfrog has a beautiful voice when it sings for its own pleasure.

Snow is the truth only when it's snowing.

Don't stand in the hallway waiting; join the feast.

What is eternal is the cloud passing slowly out of sight.

When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle.

The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.

The gold you have to dig for is not the real gold.

Kites pull on their strings because they want to be free.

The feeling of being unappreciated is a failure to appreciate others.

The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

The right key: the one that doesn't open any door.

Lessons forgotten do more good than lessons learned.

The future can't be seen even with the most powerful telescopes.

Every destination knows that there's more than one way to get there.

People say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

Beware of those who aren't content with soup and bread.

More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea.

When the wings are too heavy, the bird can't fly.

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

Not the light ahead, but the wind pushing me from behind.

Like Noah I built my ark, but the floods never came.

Change is always trivial compared to what doesn't change.

Sometimes out of sheer perversity reality conforms to my wishes.

Your faith is weak if you can't lose it.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

When the train stays on the tracks, you don't ask why.

Optimists think badly, but live well.

Some truths can only be seen in the dark.

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.

Art is a picture of the spirit.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Between greatness and cheesecake I'll take cheesecake.

When you look into things you see things that aren't there.

We no longer know what we feel when we can say what we feel.

Suppose Hercules had thought about his labors first. Fortunately, for him, he just went out and did them.

My kind of faith likes mountains just where they are.

Be a wanderer and a stranger to yourself.

I'd rather lose with love than win without it.

The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.

I used to see the flaw in every diamond. Now stones astound me with their perfection.