Nature’s Music

Forest Throne by Lorelyne

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
**William Wordsworth

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Simple Days are Happy Days

“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

**Lucy M. Montgomery

That’s why I love the Beach! Best place for bare tootsies!

“Golden Beach” by DiamondRWolf

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

**Kahlil Gibran

 

Alone, but Not Lonely

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
**Jeanne Moreau

Don’t Forget the Swinging Bench Under the Old Oak Tree

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
**Marcus Tullius Cicero

Take a Chance

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

**Virginia Woolfe

You are Mine and I am Yours

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

**Mother Theresa

Happiness at Rest

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just

beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may

alight upon you.”

-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let it Be Me

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may

have peace.”

—Thomas Paine

 

A Good (Wo)Man

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and

let every new year find you a better man.”

–Benjamin Franklin