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To Live Content with Small Means…This is My Symphony

March 25, 2010

Today I’d like to share this quote from William Henry Channing:

“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.”

I think it’s a beautiful, and refreshing, take on creative expression.

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