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Showing posts with label simple things in life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simple things in life. Show all posts

Monday

Do we really need to simplify our lives?? Some of the greatest thinkers think not.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

Teach us to delight in the simple things.
Rudyard Kipling

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.”
Henry Louis Mencken

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Charles Dudley Warner

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Philip Wylie

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Douglas Horton

Sunday

A Sunday Morning Thought

Green Toys Sand Play SetIt's Sunday morning and it's gorgeous out there!! It reminds me of summer holidays when I was a kid. The temps were hot, someone was always cutting the grass and all I could think about was piling into the car and heading to the lake to go swimming. It just doesn't get much better than that!! And even better, it's still May and summer has already arrived.

Mother Nature... are you paying attention??

Wednesday

Thoughts and a Quote About Feeling Rich

I was reading through the jottings on my Facebook page and one of my friends left this comment...

"If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. on ♥."

Kind of makes you step back and re-think everything you ever thought what you wanted out of life. What does it take to be rich and how do you feel after making a purchase?? Personally, the minute I hand over the credit card, the rush is over. I'm thinking of the next thing that I want to buy. And did you notice, I didn't say... need to buy. So, today, seeing that it is a rainy one, maybe it is the perfect day to make a list of everything you have at the moment that has nothing to do with shopping or accumulating things...

Come to think about it, I think that I have a book on my shelf... sounds familiar doesn't it. I have hundreds of books that I don't think about until something reminds me. I can't remember who wrote it but it was about enjoying the simple things in life.

Did I ever tell you about my love of dandelions?? Most people hate them, but as a little girl, seeing a yard full of dandelions meant that summer had arrived and there was nothing quite as summer on a lake! Ahh, the memories and...

DANDELIONS DON'T COST YOU A PENNY ;)