“Character is like a tree and
reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and
reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“I had seen birth and death
but had thought they were different.”
~ T.S. Eliot
“Let me recommend the best medicine
in the world: a long journey,
at a mild season, through a pleasant
country, in easy stages.”
~ James Madison
“The woods are lovely,
dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep.”
~ Robert Frost
“Being deeply loved by someone
gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply
gives you courage.”
~ Lao Tzu
“A woodland in full color is as awesome
as a forest fire, in magnitude at least,
but a single tree is like a dancing
tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
~ Hal Borland
“I’m so glad I live in a world
where there are Octobers.”
~ L.M. Montgomery
“There’s no such thing as aging,
but maturing and knowledge.
It’s beautiful; I call that beauty.”
~ Celine Dion
“There is a harmony in autumn,
and a luster in its sky, which through
the summer is not heard or seen,
as if it could not be,
as if it had not been!”
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley