My friend Shirley keeps this little quote on her refrigerator. She says “It’s something to aspire to” and I couldn’t agree more!
“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