A Rest Day

 

The holiest of all holidays are those
 Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
 The secret anniversaries of the heart,
 When the full river of feeling overflows;

Holidays,   poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

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Flowers

They are autographs of angels, penned
In Nature's green-leaved book, in blended tints,
Borrowed from rainbows and the sunset skies,
And written everywhere--on plain and hill,
In lonely dells, 'mid crowded haunts of men;
On the broad prairies, where no eye save God's
May read their silent, sacred mysteries.
Thank God for flowers! They gladden human hearts;
Seraphic breathings part their fragrant lips
With whisperings of Heaven.

Flowers, poem by Albert Laighton 

 

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Man and Nature

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa

Little Children

 

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

- P. T. Barnum

The Time Has Come

... there shall be showers of blessing.
- Ezekiel 34:26, The Holy Bible.

Happiness and Joy

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

- Earl Nightingale

It's Raining Again

When the rain came down, I was standing in the green. My soul was touched by every tree that my eyes could see. I am in peace, in love, in harmony when the rain comes down.

- Happy Rhodes

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I remember hanging out @ a place called Skate Ranch in Milan, IL when this song was popular back in 3rd grade. The lingering aroma of buttered popcorn waffled the atmosphere in that place. The year was 1974-'75, when my elementary school mates hung out @ Skate Ranch during the weekends. Great times!

comment by ChihuahuaboyDH @ Neil Sedaka - Laughter In The Rain

We all need laughter in the rain!  What a gorgeous world it would be if we saw many happy men and women just frolicking under the winter showers, holding hands and kissing.  Why must there be so much fear to find someone with whom we can share affection and deep tenderness?  People think that such a thing cannot be enjoyed without promising to be with the other person for life.  Why?  Change partners.  Share your love.

comment by sandinyourshoes @ Neil Sedaka - Laughter In The Rain

This song always makes me cry cause it reminds m about how my mother left us to "look for a brand new start" because she really did take my heart away.

comment by Zukamara @ The Casades - Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain

This song means so much to me. 1961 and my girlfriend and I were listening to the radio. She said she was breaking up with me and all of a sudden this song came on. Teen love, raindrops did fall from my eyes.

comment by Silver Fox Fox @ Dee Clark - Raindrops

They say a song brings back a thousand memories. When this was a Top 40's hit, I was working summers for a local Coke bottler. My job was as helper on a delivery truck. We carried case after case of Cokes up stairs, into supermarkets, taverns, restaurants, &c., including some in the ghetto. When I got off work, I would listen to Dee Clark sing this song over and over again. I loved it. I could not get enough of it. I still have the 45 rpm single.

comment by James Martin @ Dee Clark - Raindrops

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Pure Pleasure

“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.”

- Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

Christmas

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, 

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

- John 3:16

Splendour in the Grass

Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass
And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind
Blow over me - I am so tired, so tired
Of passing pleasant places! All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back at loveliness and sighed;
Yet at my hand an unrelenting hand
Tugged ever, and I passed. All my life long
Over my shoulder have I looked at peace;
And now I fain would lie in this long grass
And close my eyes.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Journey

Gloom

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

- M. Scott Peck

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I wish, i would be able to believe it, but I'm personally convinced, that religion is something, which was made up, to satisfy the human curiosity, when we were unable to try to achieve existential answers through logic and science - But then again, it's my perspective, and I'm - just like everyone else - not able to state my point of view as the "thruth".

comment by TheMizProductions @ Tears in heaven/Eric Clapton

I'm goin' through some rough times in a relationship right now with a girl I love more than any material thing on this earth and this song is one of the few things that keeps me goin' through the day. This song is practically my life's theme song...

comment by Arnold1117 @ I'm No Stranger to the Rain/Keith Whitley

The love of my life died January 3rd of this year. I thought that I had finally got what I was wishing for but he was taken from me. Now I am wish for love to find me again. I wish on all the stars at night that true love finds me again. Till then I will keep wishing. I hope everyone finds true love and cherishes it because you never know when it will be taken from you. There is true love out there for everyone just be patient it will come.

comment by MsJuicywoman @ Someone Else's Star/Bryan White

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a new leaf

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

- Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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Greetings

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

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Songs of Nature

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats

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Reflections of Life

Somewhere there is that fear which makes me closed and hard and sad and desperate and angry and hopeless. It seems to be so subtle that I don't even really get in touch with it.
- Osho

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the portrait of a journey

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
- Susan Sontag


I have made journey's all my life. Some with family, and a lot with friends. But most of my travels have been alone. Alone on duty.

It's always a rewarding experience to meet different people on journeys and know their cultures, customs, and behaviour.
Journeys give you a joyful chance to taste food of different flavours and aroma. They teach you the way's of life and society and enlighten you about the functioning of a government.

Also we get to make some really unknown short-term friends who linger in your thoughts for a long long time.
At the end you find your life enriched.

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The Offering

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Personal

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
- Steve Jobs

Those were the Days

When I was younger I chased butterflies
But now I look around and realize
That there are no butterflies around here anymore
Now there's more people everywhere
And on ground that once was bare
They've built condos and shopping malls
And on streets I walked where the sun shined
Shadows grow as buildings climb

- Butterflies by Crimpshrine