It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
The devil finds work for idle hands.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
