"... you can tell a lot ...."

 

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights." 

"... no matter what happens ...."

 

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

Year of the Horse

 

Year of the Fire Horse

Vitality, Power, Grace

- potent combination - 

Humility, like fire

gives and takes too.

"Come my friends"

Come my friends

‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world ...

Though much is taken, much abides;

... that which we are we are, –

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

 

"You walking, your footprints are"

 

You walking, your footprints are

the road, and nothing else;

there is no road, walker,

you make the road by walking.

By walking you make the road,

and when you look backward,

you see the path that you

never will step on again.

Walker, there is no road,

Only wind-trails in the sea.

Antonio Machado, Proverbs and Tiny Songs

"The Peace of Wild Things"

 

The Peace of Wild Things

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. 

I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. 

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, 

and am free..."

Wendell Berry

"Keep your heart clear"

 

Keep your heart clear

And transparent,

And you will

Never be bound.

A single disturbed thought

Creates ten thousand distractions.

Ryokan