"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."
— A.A. Milne

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
— A.A. Milne

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
— A.A. Milne

"'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.'"
— A.A. Milne

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
— A. A. Milne

"Rivers know this there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. "
— A.A. Milne

"Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long."
— e.e. cummings

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

""The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens)

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!"
— J.M. Barrie

"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
— J.M. Barrie

""Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
"Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."
— Rachel Carson

"'When snow melts, what does it become?'
'It becomes water, of course'
'Wrong! It becomes spring!'"
— Natsuki Takaya

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
— Margaret Atwood

"I sit beside the fire and think
I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
— Elizabeth Berg

"“I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.”"
— A.A. Milne

"It's a wonderful thing..an afternoon.
"
— Winnie the Pooh

"Don´t underestimate the value of doing nothing or just going along, listening to all the things you can´t hear, and not bothering."
— Winnie the Pooh

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"“…What I like doing best is Nothing.”

“How do you do Nothing,” asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

“Well, it’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it, ‘What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?’ and you say,”Oh, Nothing,” and then you go and do it.”

“It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

“Oh!” said Pooh."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)