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Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream…And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
By Kalidasa
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Wishing you and your family and friends a beautiful and very Merry Christmas
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future ~ Agnes M. Pahro
Christmas is the day that holds all time together ~ Alexander Smith
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly ~ Andy Rooney
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood ~ Richard Paul Evans
May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve ~ Unknown
We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection~ Winston Churchill
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor ~ Charles Dickens
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils ~ Cyril Connolly
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ~ Percy Shelley
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves ~ Virginia Woolf
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns ~ George Eliot
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all ~ Stanley Horowitz
National Cat Day was founded as a way to bring awareness to the number of homeless cats. It is a celebration that takes place on October 29th, every year in the United States.
Celebrate with your special feline … below are some favorite quotes about cats plus favorite cat photos…..
Journeys are more meaningful with special pals … Savor the moments …
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not ~ Ernest Hemingway
Cats have it all: admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it ~ Rod McKuen
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution ~ Hazel Nicholson
When the cat you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure ~ Unknown
The loss of a cat is immeasurable. But so is the love left behind ~ Unknown
The smallest feline is a masterpiece ~ Leonardo da Vinci
If you think that it’s only a cat then obviously you have never loved a cat ~ T.S.Eliot
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall ~ Ann Patchett
Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be ~ William E. Henley
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date ~ William Shakespeare
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter ~ Henry David Thoreau
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away ~ Sarah Helen Whitman
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour ~ William Blake
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs ~ Malcolm de Chazal
It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can’t help but be sensitive to that ~ Hubert de Givenchy
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans ~ Kahlil Gibran
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home ~ Sylvia Earle
At the beach — time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted ~ T.S. Eliot
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came ~ John F. Kennedy
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
I followed my heart, and it led me to the beach ~ Unknown
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul ~ Robert Wyland
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude ~ Jeanne Moreau
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours ~ Mark Twain
Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment ~ Ellis Peters
Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be ~ Anonymous
Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers ~ Byron Caldwell Smith
Journeys with Eileen Diane 