I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation
Surely joy is the condition of life.
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.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.