Month: January 2020

 

Life is truly lived in the moments of simplicity.
–  Avijeet Das

The simplest things are overlooked.
And yet, it is the simplest things that are the most essential.
–  Thomas Lloyd Qualls

 

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a
world of quiet contemplation of life.
― Lin Yutang

A person who knows who they are, lives a simple life by
eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or
her overriding purpose and values.
A person must be selective with their time and energy
because both elements of life are limited.
– Kilroy J. Oldster

The most pleasurable things we do
Are not always priced so high
Like listening to a young child laugh
Or looking at the sky.
–  Margaret H. Oliver

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and
sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart
finds its morning and is refreshed.
― Khalil Gibran

Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and
simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your
favorite food, or the sound of a loved one’s voice.
– Joseph B. Wirthlin

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
–  Henry David Thoreau

 

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than
magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to …
– Charles Dickens

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, 
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old remembered joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Home is the nicest word there is.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home is where, when you cross its threshold,
you finally feel at peace.
–  Dennis Lehane

A  home is one of the most sacred of places.
It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the
world’s perils and alarms.
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary
retire to gather new strength for the
battle and toils of tomorrow.
It is the place where love learns its lessons,
where life is schooled into discipline and strength,
where character is molded.
– J.R. Miller

Home is where one starts from.
– T.S. Eliot

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickenson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
– Helen Rowland

Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
the good, the true, the tender-
these form the wealth of home.
– Sarah J. Hale

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
– Robert Frost

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home
It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be
How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury
It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly,
takes all patiently, defends courageously, and
continues a friend unchangeably.
– William Penn

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work.
If one falls down, his friend can help him up.
– Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10

Bhutan

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship.
It is the spiritual inspiration
that comes to one when you discover that someone else
believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession,
friendship is never anything but sharing.
– Elie Wiesel

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
– Aristotle

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
– Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.
I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
– Jane Austen

Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
– William Shakespeare

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
– Mencius, Chinese philosopher, 4th cent. BCE