Orison Swett Marden Quotes

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

May the simple things be amazing on the journey of your life.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.