I love this quote~ It's so true but it's not the way we live. This is something that we have been talking about for years now. Why do we over complicate things? Why is life, everything so hard when by now we should be hitting our stride. We our in mid-life now. College is way in the past, career is established, kids are growing more toward independence every day, mortgage is established, money is being made and saved and everyday we get closer to the life that we were told was what it was all about..... home, 2 cars, vacations, savings, retirement, grand kids,etc.... But a key missing element was contentment, peace, enjoyment of this so called American dream. How could we enjoy it when were so busy, so steeped in debt and barely had the time to sit and enjoy anything that we were so diligently working for. Our boys were growing up so fast that I wanted to enjoy them. Grand kids will be great but not if we don't even have a mo...
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson