Take the gentle path. -- George Herbert |
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you will dig for them. -- Russell H. Conwell ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
Year by year, the complexities of this world grow more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities. -- Woman's Home Companion, 1935 |
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness...sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted."-- Paul Johannes Tillich |
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, the brooks for the fisher of sun; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game, the streams and the woods belong. -- Sam Walter Foss |
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But let more reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The body must be nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We're spiritually starved in this culture -- not underfed, but undernourished. -- Carol Horning ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
How to be happy when you are miserable: Plant Japanese poppies with cornflowers and mignonette, and bed out the petunias among the sweet peas so that they shall scent each other. See the sweet peas coming up. Drink very good tea out of a thin Worcester cup of a colour between apricot and pink. -- Rumer Goddes |
Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The wise lead quiet lives. -- Euripides |
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -- Thomas Moore |
Work is not always required . . . there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. -- George MacDonald ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
What is your hobby? All of us ought to have some interest in life, outside of the everyday routine which composes our regular occupations. -- The Mother's Magazine, 1915 |
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -- Isak Dinesen |
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...you must do the thing you are sure you cannot do. -- Eleanor Roosevelt ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
Respite |
Quotes came from "Simple Abundance: A Daybook Comfort and Joy" by Sarah Ban Breathnach |
Music: Am I Blue? Friday's Journal Whispers - Home Old New Orleans |
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