Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
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.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long. . long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.
Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.