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 "A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are" — Tove Jansson (Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)) - in Limenas Thassou, Greece |  Banana Yoshimoto "I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy." — Banana Yoshimoto (N.P.) - at Golden Beach, Thassos |  |
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 "Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude..." — Oksana Rus - at Porto Vathy, Thassos, Greece |  |  "You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain." — Tom Hiddleston - at Ipsarion Mouintain, Thassos, Greece |
 ,,There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive. I don't want to miss a second." — Hannah Harrington (Saving June) - at Porto Vathy, Greece |  "I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you." — Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) - at Porto Vathy, Thassos |  "Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Greek mysteries." — Jack Kerouac (On the Road) |
 "Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself." — Somya Kedia - at Golden Beach, Thassos, Greece |  "Trying to remember a dream from a decade ago is like trying to catch fog in a coffee filter. I could subsist on morning mist." — Jarod Kintz (I love Blue Ribbon Coffee) - in Skala Potamia, Thasssos, Greece |  "We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all." — Sinclair Lewis |
 "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." — H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You) |  Anna Godbersen "The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples..." — Anna Godbersen (The Luxe (Luxe, #1)) |  "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." — Andy Rooney - at Masivul Ceahlău |
 Joys of my garden |  "There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things." — Marilynne Robinson (Home (Gilead, #2)) |  "Every sunset is different, because every day sun is different, clouds are different, space is different, reflections are different, mountains are different, fogs are different, and above all, we are different!" — Mehmet Murat ildan - at Masivul Ceahlău |
 "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust - at Masivul Ceahlău |  "We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky." — Walter Mosley (Blue Light) - at Masivul Ceahlău |  In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back." — Albert Camus - at Masivul Ceahlău |
 "The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes" — Alyson Noel (Cruel Summer) - at Masivul Ceahlău |  "There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them." — Jo Walton |  Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads. Or better yet, date a girl who writes." — Rosemarie Urquico |
 "A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth." — Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking) - at Pietrele Doamnei, Rarău |  "Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love." — Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) - at Casa Sofian, Botoșani |  ”I’m stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador." — Suzanne Wright (Feral Sins (The Phoenix Pack, #1)) |
 "I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing." — Irene Hunt (Up a Road Slowly) |  "A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future." — Coco Chanel |  "Flower petals in the breeze look like a butterfly flapping its wings. My love for you takes flight like a white rose blushing pink." — Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not FOR SALE) |
 Robertson Davies "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." — Robertson Davies - at Vatican |  "I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?" — Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life) |  "She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew." — Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)) - at Mainau Insel |
 "When you slip down a mountain of Joy , don't Worry. Instead of living gloomily in the dark valley , look up at the next peak and take one step in that direction ." — Rvm |  "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." — Abraham Lincoln - at Voroneț |  "Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?" — Rumi (Call to Love: In the Rose Garden with Rumi) |
 "The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples..." — Anna Godbersen (The Luxe (Luxe, #1)) |  "I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold" — Sara Teasdale |  "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." — Henry David Thoreau (Walden) - in Wien, Austria |
 "So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday." — Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) - at Mainau Insel, Germany |  "I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence" — L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)) - at Mainau Insel, Germany |  "The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn." — Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray) |
 "I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla." — L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)) |  "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." — Robertson Davies - at Casa Sofian, Botoșani |  "I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond." — André Breton - at Casa Sofian, Botoșani |
 "Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book." — David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) |  "You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset." — Frank E. Peretti |  E.Y. Harburg "Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." — E.Y. Harburg |
 "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." — Andy Rooney - at Lacul Lala, Rodnei |  "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle." — Francis of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi) - in London, UK |  "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." — Disney's Mulan |
 "My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk" — John Keats |  Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. — Mary Oliver |  "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." — Charles William Eliot |
 "My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever." — George R.R. Martin (A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)) |  "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." — Maya Angelou (Letter to My Daughter) |  "It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright." — Stephen King (Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)) |
 "Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass." — L.J. Smith (Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1)) |  "Ar fi înspăimântător să crezi că din tot acest cosmos atât de armonios, desăvârşit şi egal cu sine, numai viaţa omului se petrece la întâmplare, numai destinul lui n-are nici un sens." — Mircea Eliade (Nuntă în cer) |  "You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace." — Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)) |
 "A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children" — Markus Zusak (The Book Thief) |  "When snow melts, what does it become?' It becomes water, of course' Wrong! It becomes spring!" — Natsuki Takaya |  "Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun?" — Ally Condie (Matched (Matched, #1)) |
 "But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose." — Anne Brontë |  "with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning." — Kakuzō Okakura (The Book of Tea) |  "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." — Josh Billings |
 Awesome colleagues are awesome! |  "Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. " — Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha) |  "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." — Oscar Wilde - at Palacio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal |
 "So many books, so little time." — Frank Zappa |  "In the forest, in the forest, silence had cast a spell over all things. She plucked a great bouquet of daffodils and snowdrops, and tenderly held them to her, and tenderly kissed their fresh spring faces." — Katherine Mansfield |  "Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment." — Colleen McCullough (Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)) - in Rome, Italy |
 "Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared." — Tupac Shakur (The Rose That Grew from Concrete) - in Rome, Italy |  "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." — Henry David Thoreau (Walden) - at Castelul lui Cuza, Ruginoasa |  "You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore." — Katherine Allred (The Sweet Gum Tree) |
 "For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |  "To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift." — Franklin D. Roosevelt - in Odessa, Ukraine |  "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince) - at St. Paul's Cathedral, London |
 "Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once." — Audrey Hepburn |  "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." — Sophia Loren - at Fontana di Trevi, Rome |  "Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her." — G.K. Chesterton - in Rome, Italy |
 "I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." — Jack Kerouac |  "Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out." — Franny Billingsley (Chime) - At Vidraru, Argeș |  "Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." — Irving Berlin |
 "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." — Bob Marley - at Dragomirna |  "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." — Jean de La Fontaine (Fables) - in Berlin, Germany |  "The sun always shines above the clouds." — Paul F. Davis |
 "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." — Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own) - at Vatican, Italy |  "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." — A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)) |  "And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings." — Meister Eckhart |
 "Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon." — Rumi - at Barajul Bicaz |  "My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music." — Charlotte Eriksson - at Vidamar Resort, Alrgarve |  "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." — Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre) |
 "What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains." — Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) |  "Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." — E.Y. Harburg |  "Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night." — Irving Berlin |
 "Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." — Jack Kerouac (On the Road) - in Albufeira, Portugal |  "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." — Robert A. Heinlein - in Berlengas, Portugal |  "Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests; on shores of sand: and when our time on earth is through, in heaven, too, you will have my hand" — Robert Sexton |
 "I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body." — Edward Hirsch - in Albufeira, Portugal |  "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" — Oscar Wilde |  "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." — Rumi |
 "We are not the products of our culture, we are the creators of it." — David Hight - at Cetatea Neamțului |  "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson |  "Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." — Leonardo da Vinci - in Otopeni |
 "What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us." — Helen Keller - in Odessa, Ukraine |  "If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there" — George Harrison |  "A flower is a plant's way of making love." — Barbara Kingsolver (Small Wonder) |
 "Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." — David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) |  "Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake." — Santosh Kalwar (Quote Me Everyday) |  "Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry." — Jack Kerouac - in Odessa, Ukraine |
 "Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself." — Somya Kedia - at Palácio National da Pena, Portugal |  "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me." — Maya Angelou (Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women) |  "The sunrise sky was creeping over the edge of the city in orange-and-scarlet striations, and the clocks were or were not chiming seven." — Scott Lynch (Rogues) |
 "Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness." — Mary Oliver - in Borșa, Maramureș |  "Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self." — Franz Kafka - at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna |  "I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." — Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass) - at Mainau Island, Germany |
 ''This is my church, this is where I heal my hurts'' - Faithless - in Mainau Island, Germany |  "As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can"." — John Muir - in Mainau Island, Germany |  "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." — Maya Angelou - in Mainau Island, Germany |
 "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." — Augustine of Hippo - in Mondsee, Austria |  "I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still" — Sylvia Plath (Letters Home) |  "Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." — Lemony Snicket (Horseradish) in Sibiu, Hilton Hotel |
 "We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else’s erased life." — Aleksandar Hemon - in Sibiu, Hilton Hotel |  "All this holiday cheer Heaven knows where it goes But it returns every year And though this winter does nothing but storm The joy in my heart is ablaze and it's keeping me warm!" — Owl City - In Sibiu |  "Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake." — Santosh Kalwar (Quote Me Everyday) |
 "What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains." — Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) - in Busnau, Stuttgart, Germany |  "Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson (The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3) |  Shel Silverstein "She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew." — Shel Silverstein (Every Thing on It) - in Salgados, Portugal |
 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." — Edgar Allan Poe (Eleonora) - in Faro, Portugal |  "Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life." — Marilynne Robinson (Gilead) |  ”Imagine using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? he had no sense of proportion.' But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea." — J.R.R. Tolkien (Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 248)) - in Bucharest |
 "I'm not a graceful person. I'm not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I'm a Tuesday 2 am, gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I'm a broken window during February. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes." — A. P. — in Albufeira |  "Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you" — Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo) — in Rome, Italy. |  "I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean." (Lana Del Rey) — at Berlengas, Portugal. |
 "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." — H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You) |  "I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away." — Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3)) |  "Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." — Franz Kafka — at Casa Sofian Botosani. |
 "Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home." — Henry van Dyke — in Venice, Italy. |  "Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent." — H.P. Lovecraft — at Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal. |  "Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning. " — Pablo Neruda — at Berlengas, Portugal |
 "Mar, metade da minha alma é feita da maresia..." — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen — at Praia da Adraga, Sintra |  "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." — Steve Jobs — at Varful Ineu. |  "I'm not a graceful person. I'm not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I'm a Tuesday 2 am, gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I'm a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. — Anna Peters — in Faro, Portugal. |
 "I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip." — Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall) |  "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle." — Thích Nhất Hạnh |  "Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. ''— Erin Morgenstern (The Night Circus) |
 "It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Atlantic sunset.." — Yann Martel (Life of Pi) — in Faro, Portugal. |  "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!" — Bob Marley — at CS Salgados Grande Hotel. |  "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me." — Maya Angelou (Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women) |
 "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." — Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds) — in Faro, Portugal. |  “Îmi place albastrul, vagul, lenea și muzica. Marea mai presus de tot, pentru că este sinteza a tot ceea ce iubesc. E albastră, e vagă, e leneșă și muzicală, e fluidă și profundă și violentă și dulce, e departe și aproape, palpabilă și insesizabilă, te înneci în ea și trăiești în ea, te mângâie și te iluzionează.” — Jeni Acterian (Jurnalul unei fete greu de mulţumit) — at CS Salgados Grande Hotel. |  "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." — Alfred Tennyson |
 "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." — E. E. Cummings |  "May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out." — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)) — in Rome, Italy. |  "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)) — at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom |
 ,,I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.'' — Pablo Neruda |  "I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky--same as it always was." — Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) — in Venice, Italy. |  "I have no idea how he knows when I need him... [...] ...and then, when my blue moods threaten to turn black, he will show up and tell me my moods are azure indigo cerulean cobalt periwinkle and suddenly the blue will not seem so dark, more like the color of a noon-bright sky. He brings the sun." — David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility) — in Berlin, Germany. |
 “I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. " — C. JoyBell C. — at Cetatea Râşnovului. |  "Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky." — حافظ (Hafez) |  "I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." — Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets) — in Pisa, Italy. |
 "Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was." — Scott Westerfeld (The Uglies Trilogy (Uglies, #1-3)) |  "I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; My eyes shut These dreaming houses all snuff out; Through a whim of mine Over gables the moon's celestial onion Hangs high." From "Soliloquy of the Solipsist" — Sylvia Plath (Collected Poems) |  The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man... — at Pietrele Doamnei - Masivul Rarau. |
 "Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." — Edith Sitwell |  "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." — Albert Camus — at Cetatea Neamţului. |  "Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind." — Lauren Oliver (Delirium) |
 In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.. |  "Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing." — Eve Ensler |  Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye... — at Vatican Museums - Musei Vaticani. |
 Vagrant in Paris “I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better. ” Tom Hiddleston — at Place Vendôme. |  Down we ride 'till the very end... — in Radauti. |  Mine was the twilight and the morning... Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs... — in Paris, France. |
 ..and now I know that wishes are not granted only in fairy tales! — at Neuschwanstein Castle. |  When faced with the darkest day With an endless night when I lay awake Only thought of you can pull me through When shadowed by the grayest cloud Weighed down by darkest self doubt Memory of you smile Can pull me out.. ...all I feel is you! — at Barajul Bicaz. |  Break on through to the other side... — at Hard Rock Cafe Rome. |
 Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky... — in Pisa, Italy. |  All that we see or seem it's just a dream within a dream... |  May it be light to you in dark places, when all other lights run out! — in Rome, Italy. |
 Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, the quiet mind is richer than a crowd... — in Pisa, Italy. |  Never tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon... |
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