Luxury

$100 Brooks’ tennis shoes that correct my pronation: invaluable.

$8 sweater from the Cancer Society resale shop: a bargain. Jewelry created by Valerie Bailey, a friend who is a silversmith: priceless!

These are my luxuries…

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common – this is my symphony.” — William Henry Channing

“Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure”
— Jane Brody

“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.” –Tennessee Williams

“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.” — Coco Chanel

“A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization”
— Chinese Proverbs

“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”
— Leontyne Price

“Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.”
— Marian Wright Edelman

“Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.”
— John Betjeman