How do blind people know when they're done wiping their ass?
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
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.
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.