A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
Rest is by no means a waste of time.
A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.
A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
Do what you will, only do something.
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