Jakub S posted:

"To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury.
And refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy not respectable
To study hard, think quietly,
Talk gently, act frankly;
To listen to stars and birds,
To babes and sages with an open heart;
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
Await occasions, hurry never;
To let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
Grow up through the common,
This is to be my symphony."
Wm. Henry Channing