...one more time

"Success is getting up one more time than you fall down."

~ Oliver Goldsmith

...best time

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

~ Chinese Proverb

...of superfluities

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. 

-Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)

...heaven is close by

Sometimes they seem like living shapes,
The people of the sky,
Guests in white raiment coming down
From heaven, which is close by. 

-Lucy Larcom, teacher and author (1824-1893)

...a pearl

A raindrop, dripping from a cloud,

Was ashamed when it saw the sea.
"Who am I where there is a sea?" it said.
When it saw itself with the eye of humility,
A shell nurtured it in its embrace.
-Saadi of Shiraz (c. 1200 AD)