"A single gentle rain makes the grass..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.”
“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?”
“Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.”
More on Mindfulness
“It is a great art to saunter !”
“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.”
“To live long it is necessary to live slowly.”
More on Nature
“Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.”
“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”
“Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.”