We find comfort among those who agree with us–growth among those who don’t. Frank A Clark

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. Linda Dillow

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke

Some delight through song others with showy plumage, the hummer, with flight. Jay Neville

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.  When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.  Lao Tzu  

this is the front of our house in spring

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

(wildflowers are called “Sticky Chinese Houses”)

I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who’d want to get me at the end of the picture? Bette Davis

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore