“With just the smallest bit of neglect, the heart too can become neglected and begin to fill with worldly desires. This is why we must do the laundry.”
― Shoukei Matsumoto
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,"
But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Life, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
Oh why lament its fall?
Rapidly, merrily
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily,
Enjoy them as they fly!
by Charlotte Brontë
In April
I wake to birds calling to spring
and rain, slow and steady,
nudging the tulips. In the gray
of my morning walk, the forsythia
are moments of sunshine
against the monotone of clouds —
blossoms tumbling down the hillside
like children laughing.
by Sarah Russell