Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

Gladys Taber

Categorized in : Sorry Spiritual Hurt

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

Gladys Taber

wind-blowing voice running

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

Gladys Taber

light eye writing

I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!

Gladys Taber

selfish destiny thinking

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

Gladys Taber

fun jobs lying

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Gladys Taber

june wish giving

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Gladys Taber

real steps moving

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Gladys Taber

being-alone dream time

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

Gladys Taber

hate fishing home

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Gladys Taber

waiting home book

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Gladys Taber

sparrows home bird

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

Gladys Taber

fire summer memories

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

Gladys Taber

heart running beautiful

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

Gladys Taber

grief fishing worry

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Gladys Taber

lovers dog friendship

Happiness is a thing of now.

Gladys Taber

happiness

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Gladys Taber

xmas christmas mean

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

Gladys Taber

creating cat play

I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

Gladys Taber

cat dog running

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

Gladys Taber

curious faith spring

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

jealousy pride fall