Naomi Whitaker > Naomi's Quotes

“Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out.”
― S.D. Gordon, 5 Christian Books in 1 Book

“We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.”
― Oswald Chambers

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ”
― Henry David Thoreau

“More isn't always better. Sometimes it's just more.”
― Barbara Benedek

“There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
― Walt Whitman

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
― Brenda Ueland

“A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it beautiful.”
― Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write

“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”
― Anne Morrow Lindberg

“The human voice is the organ of the soul.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait."

Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein

“Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God 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 of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The man or woman who learns to make peace with routine responsibilities and obligations will make the greatest contributions in the long run.”
― Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World

“Since we have not understood that rest is a necessity, we have perverted its meaning, substituting for the rest that God first demonstrated things called leisure or amusement. These do not bring any order at all to the private world. Leisure and amusement may be enjoyable, but they are to the private world of the individual like cotton candy to the digestive system. They provide a momentary lift, but they will not last.”
― Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”
― Thomas Moore

“Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Calendar

“It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home”
― Edgar A. Guest

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”
― Lousia May Alcott

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women