Simplicity is...

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~D.H. Mondfleur

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson

Freedom is...

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower


The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~Thomas Campbell


Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln


You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
~Robert Frost


Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~Thomas Paine


In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan


There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~Charles Kingsley

Freedom means choosing your burden.
~Hephzibah Menuhin

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~Author Unknown

Peace is....

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare


An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi


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


It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt


Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. David Borenstein.

Courage is...

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."Ambrose Redmoon



"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."Winston Churchill



"Courage is knowing what not to fear."Plato



"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."Eleanor Roosevelt



"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."Alfred North Whitehead



"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."Maya Angelou

Friend is....

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings


Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
-- Cindy Lew

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
-- Jewish Saying

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle

Life is....

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

-Abharam Lincoln

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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

-Albert Eienstein

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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
-Amelia Burr

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Gandhi