Simplicity

I have a calendar for this year called Simplicity. It has very calming, serene photos and quotes for each month. Since it's December and the year is coming to an end, I thought I would write down the quotes so I could reference them.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.- Henry Ward Beecher

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -Charles Henry Parkhurst

How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the world. -William Wordsworth

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music- that would be rest. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Simplicity is the glory of expression. - Walt Whitman

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are more of importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas Moore

The greatest truths are the simplest. -Hosea Ballou

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found. -Ovid

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs. -Rudyard Kipling

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time. -Conrad Potter Aiken



I always strive to live simply, but it never works. Maybe that will be my 2013 goal.