Quotes

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Love is a great beautifier.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow w…

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

Forever is composed of Nows.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather.

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Energy is Eternal Delight.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The child is father of the man.

Come forth, and bring with you a heart / That watches and receives.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.