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Tag: commonplace book

  • Find Time For Stillness

         “But here’s what I’ve discovered:  The people who find time for stillness are the people who have the energy and perspective to stay on top of their hectic “outer” lives.”Emilie BarnesThe Spirit of Loveliness: Bringing Beauty, Creativity, and Order to Your Life from my Commonplace Book God bless you as you look well to the […]

  • Excuses, Excuses

    “But never, I repeat never, let an imperfect situation be an excuse to do nothing.“Deniece Schofield, from her book,Confessions of a Happily Organized Family Added to my Commonplace Book 6/15/09

  • Seeing With New Eyes

    “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”Nikos Kazantzakis, Report from Greco,excerpted from Living a Beautiful Life (Added recently to my Commonplace Book) God bless you as you look well to the ways of your household!Proverbs 31:27 

  • Fruitful

         From my commonplace book: “To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends….”Samuel Johnson, The RamblerNovember 10, 1750,excerpted from Living a Beautiful Life      Isn’t that a lovely quote?  I loved it when I read it, and immediately added it to my […]

  • From My Commonplace Book

    “Single days experienced fully add up to a lifetime lived deeply and well.”Alexandra StoddardLiving a Beautiful Life

  • Added Today

         Added today to my Commonplace Book: “They that watch for providence will never want a providence to watch for.”-C. H. Spurgeon God bless you as you look well to the ways of your household!Proverbs 31:27 

  • Is Your Tank Full or Empty? – Why I Think Reading is Important for Every Woman!

    I love reading.  I always have.  For some reason, my parents never felt the need to buy many books for our home, though I’m sure it would not have been a financial burden for them to have done so.  Neither one of them were really readers.  Oh, we had a few books around, and I […]

  • Firelight

         Penned today into my Commonplace Book:              Firelight will not let you read fine stories, but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.          – An Irish Proverb- (Culled from The Art of Romantic Living: Simple Touches to Enhance Everyday Life)      After a thirty mile trip to a medical […]

  • Encouraging Words From G. K. Chesterton

         “How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about (arithmetic), and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?  How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?  No; a woman’s function is laborious because it is […]

  • For Homeschooling Moms

    “How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about (arithmetic), and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious because it is gigantic, […]