By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.
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!
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.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.
You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.