Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
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.
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
Hale, stop it. ” Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. “You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them. ” “I'm too close. ” “You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off. ” “It makes me a bad thief. ” “It makes you a good person.