-
Recent Posts
Archives
-
Join 1,362 other subscribers
Tag Archives: Quote
Spirals
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. ~Madame de Staël French novelist 1766-1817
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged hope, inspiration, Life, Madame de Staël, mind, progress, Quote, remember, share, spirals, thoughts
1 Comment
Just What I Wanted
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged art, bc, Beauty, Ben Stein, decide, forest, garden, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, seeing, share, want, woods
7 Comments
Questions
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria … Continue reading
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged art, bc, Beauty, flowers, freedom, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, Rainer Maria Rilke, survival, thoughts
2 Comments
Tell It
We have enough people who tell it like it is – now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ~ Robert Orben
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged art, bc, Beauty, freedom, happy place, heart, home, hope, inspiration, Life, light, photograph, Quote, remember, Robert Oben, seeing, thoughts, words
2 Comments
Compassion
Like honesty, compassion may be expressed through verbal means but its basic form of communication is silence. ~ Clark E. Moustakas
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged bc, Beauty, Clark E. Moustakas, communication, compassion, forest, freedom, heart, honesty, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, remember, share, silence, survival, thoughts, words
2 Comments
World View
Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. ~ Marcel Proust
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged art, artist, Beauty, flowers, freedom, hope, inspiration, Life, Marcel Proust, nature, original, photograph, Quote, seeing, thoughts, world view
Leave a comment
Regrets
Don’t regret the past, just learn from it. ~Ben Ipock
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged Beauty, Ben Ipock, freedom, hope, inspiration, learn, Life, memories, past, Peace, photograph, Quote, regrets, remember, seeing, survival, thoughts, words
3 Comments
Figuring Life Out
You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. ~Robert M. Pirsig
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged art, bc, Beauty, inspiration, Life, nature, pattern, photograph, Quote, Robert M. Pirsig, survival, thoughts, water
1 Comment
Circumstantial Evidence
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged Benjamin Disraeli, circumstances, Covid, creatures, evidence, Life, photograph, Quote, seeing, survival, thoughts, winter, words
1 Comment
Tradition
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes—our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. ~ Gilbert … Continue reading
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged ancestors, Beauty, democracy, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, hope, inspiration, Life, memory, nature, photograph, Quote, survival, thoughts, tradition
4 Comments
Prayers For Doing What Is Right
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings … Continue reading
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged bc, Beauty, decisions, ferns, forest, hope, impeachment vote, inspiration, Life, Martin Luther King Jr., nature, Peace, photograph, Quote, remember, senate, survival, thoughts, winter, woods
1 Comment
Listening To Both Sides
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. ~ Frank Tyger.
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged bc, Beauty, forest, Frank Tyger, freedom, hope, impeachment, inspiration, Life, memories, nature, photograph, Quote, remember, seeing, thoughts, winter, woods
1 Comment
Positive Results
Positive thoughts precede positive results. ~Matshona Dhliwayo
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged art, bc, Beauty, ducks, forest, garden, home, inspiration, Life, Matshona Dhilwayo, nature, photograph, positive, Quote, remember, results, thoughts
2 Comments
Correcting Past Mistakes
To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity
Tagged bc, Beauty, correcting, Eleanor Roosevelt, foresight, hope, inspiration, Life, mistakes, nature, past, photograph, Quote, remember, survival
Leave a comment
Planning My Day
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~E. B. White