“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.”
Often, we are so distracted by the next thing we have to do—pulling an extra shift, cleaning up the house, scheduling the next newsletter, scrambling to balance between do what we want and what we need to do—that we lose sight of the simple, beautiful things right in front of us. As Robert Louis Stevenson says, often the best things in life—the things we most want and need—are not across the sea, or waiting somewhere in the vague, unreachable future. They’re all around us. Beauty lies around every corner, in fresh air and blue skies and blooming flowers. Even in doing each simple task that lies before us we can find joy.
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