A trio of quotes on this rainy day

Does the rain make you contemplative, too?
1) Two years ago today, this was my facebook status: "If I don't hear back from the senator by Friday I will be joining the Convent. This is my facebook promise."

Thankfully, I got a call before Friday and I am not blogging from a convent. My new plan is to join the convent if Eric dies. I've already made that clear to him. The convent has always been my back up plan. And I am dead* serious about it. An Anglican convent, by the way. Is that weird?

What is your back up plan?

2) "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or... other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." -Till We Have Faces

I can't get enough of C.S. Lewis. If I quote him 54,902 more times on this blog, I am sorry. I honestly cannot help myself. But isn't that so very true? It is so difficult to say just what you mean.

3) There is wisdom in this:

  “People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.

            If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.

            If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway.

           If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

            What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.

            If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

            The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.

         Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.

         In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.”

- Mother Teresa

*By "dead" I mean 64% sure
The good picture is from here.