Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
–Lin Yutang
The simplest things are often the truest.
–Richard Bach
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
–Albert Einstein
If one’s life is simple, contentment will come.
–Dalai Lama (saw him once in Calgary)
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
–Frank Lloyd Wright
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
–Albert Camus
Forever is composed of nows.
–Emily Dickinson
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
–Albert Camus
Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.
–William Wordsworth
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
–Henri Matisse
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
–George Eliot
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
–Camille Pissarro
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
–Democritus
There is enchantment right in front of you, waiting for you to notice.
–Janet Luhrs
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
–John Ruskin
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
–Franz Kafka
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
–Henry David Thoreau
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
–Charles Mingus
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson