34. MY SYMPHONY

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy not responsible and wealthy not rich; to study hard, think quietly and talk frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open heart; to hear all cheerfully, to act bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in brief to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common; this I desire to be my symphony.