What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
The first wealth is health.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
The earth laughs in flowers.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Beauty without expression is boring.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
The years teach much which the days never know.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
