A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always,

and took advantage of every accident that befell us,

like the grass which confesses

the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it;

and did not spend our time

in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities.

We loiter in winter

while it is already spring.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU