Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. – Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden

Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

At some point in my life, I swallowed a Sun. And now it dawns and sets in my belly. – Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com

[T]he hours are even now never so full of gain as when I give them to the sky, the sea, the open wold. Why should we grudge Nature our heart? We might as well grudge it to the God who made the world. – Adeline Sergeant, The Story of a Penitent Soul: Being the Private Papers of Mr.