Today

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
-- Horace
(Poem #1365) Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man

Life handed you a lemon

"Life handed him a lemon,
As Life sometimes will do.
His friends looked on in pity,
Assuming he was through.
They came upon him later,
Reclining in the shade
In calm contentment, drinking
A glass of lemonade."

- Clarence Edwin Flynn
[published in “The Rotarian” in November 1940]

Look deep into nature

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

理直气和

Photo taken at Chengdu, China in 2010

Explain it simply

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein