The Simple Life |
All the loveliest things there be Come simply, or so it seems to me. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment. -- Louise Dickinson Rich |
My crown is called content; a crown that seldom kings enjoy. -- William Shakespeare ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. -- George Sand |
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can do without. -- Henry David Thoreau ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The simplest things are often the truest....your obligation in life is to be true to yourself; from that, all else will flow. -- Richard Bach ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The little things are infinitely the most important. -- Arthur Conan Doyle |
Middlebury, Vermont |
Cumberland County, Tennessee |
St. Helena Parish, Louisiana |
Exterior and interior of church, Livingston Parish, Louisiana |
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Simonton, Texas |
Faith is stronger than fear and fear is the killer of beginnings. -- Anne H. Aldrich ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent. -- Leo Tolstoy |
Wetherfeld, Connecticut |
Goodness is the only investment which never fails. -- Unknown ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ True happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, love and compassion. -- Dalai Lama ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Our lives are frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify, simplify. -- Henry David Thoreau |
Gainesboro, Tennessee |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All we see of people at any moment is a snapshot of their lives, in richness or poverty, in joy or despair; snapshots don't show the million events that led to that moment. -- Richard Bach ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ There can be too much happiness or too much sadness. What I'm after is contentment. -- Ray Charles |
Seneca County, New York |
Simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. -- Eleanor Roosevelt ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. -- Oscar Wilde ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good. -- Beatrix Potter |
Fayette County, Kentucky |
Amite, Louisiana |
Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. -- Jason Lee |
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The richest man, whatever his lot, Is he who's content with what he has got. -- Dutch Proverb |
Spring Glen, New York |
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. -- Winston Churchill |
Sullivan County, Tennessee |
Antelope County, Nebraska |
Union Church, Jefferson County, Mississippi |
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Merrimack County, New Hampshire |