“Solitude sometimes is best society.” (Paradise Lost by John Milton)
Solitude
Yearning for solitude?
Needs vs. Wants
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” –Plato
Needs vs. Wants
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” –Socrates Prayer, family time and exercise need to be on the schedule!
Slowing down?
Homily for the Baptism of the Lord
Lifting hearts?
“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”
Emily Dickinson
Selfless?
Kindness
“May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?” Fyodor Dostoevsky
