A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance. ~ Victor Hugo
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. ~ Diane von Furstenberg
Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it. ~ Ricardo Legorreta
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. ~ James Thomas Fields
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april
my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains
i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing
winter by spring, i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)
