Sunshine is delicious,
rain is refreshing,wind braces us up,
snow is exhilarating;
there is no such thing as bad weather,
only different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin
There is no rain
That falls sideways of itself.
'Tis only the wind that beats
Against the window at midnight.
-St, Rissho
You must rise about the gloomy clouds.
-Ryokan Taigu
A heavy downpour of rain.
Stand and face the rain,
let its steel rays pierce you,
float in the water that waits to carry you with it,
but hold fast all the same,
just stand up straight and wait
for the sudden and endless shining of the sun.
-Franz Kafka
