Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. T. S. Eliot
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. Rose Wilder Lane
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. Jewish Proverb
The bird that escapes from its cage never wants to come back. Vietnamese Proverb
A snake which escapes fills a basket. Nigerian Proverb