Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath Tagore



Music fills the infinite between two souls
Rabindranath Tagore



There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer



The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell



Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carlson



A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb



Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin



Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain


The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin


He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu




No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin



Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin



Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin



Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin



All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness
within.
Horace Friess



Each season has its joys to treasure, to lift one's spirits and bring
us pleasure.

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Click on the photo to better see the buds.

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Kahlil Gibran

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Kahlil Gibran

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Had to come home from Whidbey Island early as my son had to leave town -- again and I needed to come back to take care of the dogs, but it was a great three days and I enjoyed walking on the beach and just enjoying the quiet and the beauty. AND I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone's blog so it'll be a late night!!
Hope you all have a lovely and beautiful evening!

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin

Tonight's Look at Wisdom and Beauty

Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
- Rabindranath Tagore



Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran



The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

We've had sun, clouds and everything in between today, but the colors up and down the streets are multiplying every day and it's once more a joy to walk outside. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

If click in the photos to enlarge and you look closely, you can see the wind, fortunately you can't feel it because it was cold. But there was some blue in the sky today. The trees look so delicate and fragile with their tiny new leaves. I do love the willow, swaying in the breeze.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Today, at least for a while, it looked and felt like spring with a blue, blue sky and beautiful blossoms.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Your friend is your needs answered.
Kahlil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Evening Words, Wisdom and Beauty

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Kahlil Gibran

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

This is the maple tree with the diamond-like raindrops a couple of weeks ago that taught me that there can even be beauty in the rain. Click on both of the photos to really appreciate the detail.

This is the same maple as she/he begins leaf out to catch the sun.