To Enjoy on a Rainy Day

A bird does not sing because he has an answer.
He sings because he has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)




Nothing in the world is more valuable
than every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan



There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living
and the other how to live.

-- James Truslow Adams



As one can see
when the eyes are open,
so one can understand
when the heart is open.


Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Bowl of Saki


Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembersone's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Yoko Ono


I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door--
or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come
no matter how dark the present.

Rabindranath Tagore


Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself
and know that everything in this life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to use to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross


Because one believes in oneself,one doesn't try to convince others.
Because one is content with oneself,one doesn't need others' approval.
Because one accepts oneself,the whole world accepts him or her.

The Tao Te Ching


You can tell whether one is clever
by his or her answers.
You can tell whether one is wise
by his or her questions.

Naguib Mahfouz


To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion;

to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich;
to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;

to listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages, with open heart;

to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never;

In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common--
this is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing

Your life is always working,
whether you know it or not.
Sometimes it works to bring you what you want,
and sometimes it works to keep you from what you think you want.

Neale Donald Walsch : Tomorrow's God