Everything Quotes

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

What is once well done is done forever.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.