life
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
“The cut worm forgives the plough.”
“In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
“Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the best friend and adviser of the poor.”
“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
“We need much less than we think we need.”
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life!”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
“I had troubles of my own, and even the most heartening philosophical vistas are no match for a toothache.”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”