when the best things are right there for the taking.

To live content with small means;

to seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion;

to be worthy, not respectable,

and wealthy, not, rich;

to listen to stars and birds,

babes and sages, with open heart;

to study hard;

to think quietly,

act frankly,

talk gently,

await occasions,

hurry never;

in a word,

to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,

grow up through the common

--this is my symphony.

— WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING

There are some days when I think I'm going

to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

~Salvador Dali

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

~John Bulwer

"Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do."

-- Rumi