Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he sh...
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one a...
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthrig...
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. [; November 16, 1857]
The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or rou...
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
To be awake is to be alive.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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