Simplicity -

There is beauty in simplicity. 

~ Anonymous

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Mind -

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alphonse Karr

Some people are 

always grumbling 

because roses have 

thorns; I am

thankful that thorns

  have roses.

Alphonse Karr

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Happiness -

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Charles Kettering - Quote on and Idea -

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

~ Charles Kettering

Omar Khayyam - Thought for Today -

“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, 

A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse 

- and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - 

And Wilderness is Paradise now.”

~ Omar Khayyam

Niccolo Machiavelli - Life Quotes -

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

~ Niccolo Machiavelli