. . . there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
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.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.