Just finished reading "The Gentle Art of Domesticity" by Jane Brocket and it is such a lovely book....so very inspiring!! This little passage really caught my attention:
"It helps to have a state of mind that can turn even the smallest indulgence into a luxury. This
means looking positively at your life----considering not what you want to have, but what you
can, or already, have. It means deciding for yourself what you class as luxury and not following
the media's overblown ideas. Couture dresses, private jets, huge yachts and large gems are very
wonderful, I'm sure, but doesn't the fact that only a handful of women in the world can afford
them strike you as ridiculous? Far better to treat yourself to a couple skeins of lovely yarn,
afternoon tea and a film, a bright bunch of roses, or a small, but perfectly formed box of
chocolate. As Bette Davis says at the end of Now Voyager, "Don't let's ask for the moon----we
have the stars.""
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