Rainy Days To Appreciate Quotes & Sayings

So you should accept knowledge as if you were hearing something you already knew. But this does not mean to receive various pieces of information merely as an echo of your own opinions. It means that you should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear. If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are. So when we say, "Rozan is famous for its misty, rainy days," it does not mean to appreciate this sight by recollecting some scenery we have seen before: "It is not so wonderful. I have seen that sight before." Or "I have painted much more beautiful paintings! Rozan is nothing!" This is not our way. If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling. — Shunryu Suzuki

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives. — Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last. — Elbert Hubbard

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money. — George Bernard Shaw

Your talent is a spark, but with hard work it becomes a light. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you. — Chuck Palahniuk

Its remarkable the logic we build around a misapprehension. — Sloane Crosley

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. — G.K. Chesterton

You never know with juries. I'd take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty. — Kenneth Eade

For me, when I got married and when I had my daughter, those are two things that - when it does feel like work - makes me feel like I'm working for my family. I look around and just feel so blessed, because the opportunities that have been laid at my feet are second-to-none. — Cody Johnson