IF 'INFLUENCE'

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

- E. M. Foster

IF 'SWELL'

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

IF 'IMPERFECT'

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into it's system of laws.

- Pat Conroy

IF 'OBSESSION'

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

- Claude Monet