The Little Things are the Big Things

"The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great, like the humble, may have to find their satisfaction in the same plain things."

Edgar A. Collard, 1974

Autumn Photos Cont.

An Elegant Sufficiency

An elegant sufficiency, content,

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,

Ease and alternate labour, useful life,

Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

James Thomson, 1700-1748, Spring

Let me be content.

The Little Things-Sunday Citar

Check out freshmommyblog.com for more beautiful photos and quotes.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back

and realize they were the big things.

~Robert Brault~

Teach Me Your Paths

Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

Psalm 25:4

Gratitude

I'm joining freshmommyblog.com this week in her

*sunday citar*

with this autumn collage

and a favorite quote for the season.

Go on over to enjoy some of the other fine photos and quotes.

To Perceive Freshly

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar,

from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine,

to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ...

To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

~Henry David Thoreau~

This post is in response to Heidi's 'Living Lovely' challenge for this week.

Contentment

Harvest

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others.None can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”

Kent Nerburn quotes

Fruit In Season

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

~James Boswell, 1740-1795~

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.
~James Hervey~

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

~Mother Teresa~

Parables Of The Garden

~Living In The Moment~
Seeing

~Wishing for roses ~

Prepare, tend and prune them
but don't sit and wish longingly
for June's roses and Delphiniums
while May, in all her glory,
is standing right before you.



To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
~ George Orwell~



The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust~

If not ignored, nature will cultivate in the gardener a sense of well-being and peace. The gardener may find deeper meaning in life by paying attention to the parables of the garden. Nature teaches quiet lessons to the gardener who chooses to live within the paradigm of the garden.

Norman H. Hansen