For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have always been amazed at the tenacious quality of life. How the trees grow right through granite rocks and hang on to the side of a cliff through all kinds of weather.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The small crocus at our feet could easily be missed – but it’s well worth the look.
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