"... even when I have pains ...."

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one." 

 

"... 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." 

A little of everything

A little

of everything,

The good, the bold

and the meek,

And I have lived life.

"... from a wild animal ...."

"... from a wild animal ... I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive."

Songs of the earth

Songs of the earth

I hear, I listen

I loath to leave.

"My heart wandered through the world ...."

My heart wandered through the world

constantly seeking after my cure,

but the sweet and delicious water of life

had to break through the granite of my heart.

Rumi