The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
~Ramakrishna (photo Altfast)

You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.  ~Arlo Guthrie

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake… ~Francis Bacon, Sr. (photo Malechki)

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin (image Bedingfield)

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
~ Homer (photo B. Rosen)

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
~William Shakespeare

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Peace is always beautiful. ~Walt Whitman (photo May Pang)

Wishing you a happy, thoughtful and safe week ~
DCKennedy