When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.
I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.
Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.
All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.