Joie du Soleil

I will take care not to go toward the dark.
I will go toward the day.
- Inuit saying

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-Victor Hugo

Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.
-Erasmus

The day, water, sun, moon, night--I do not have to purchase these things with money.
-Plautus (Roman playwright, c. 254-184 B.C.)

The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.
-Pablo Picasso

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
-George Bernard Shaw

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.
-John James Audubon

It doesn't matter where we go away on holiday — as soon as we get home, we're relieved. There's nowhere like it for us.
-Carlo Briscoe (Tile-maker in Pembrokeshire, UK)

"My dear, all life is a series of problems which we must try and solve. First one, and then the next, and the next, until at last we die."
-a line from the Dowager, a character played by
Maggie Smith in "Downton Abbey", by
Julian Fellowes.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
-Emile Zola

...everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
-May Sarton (1912-1985)