Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Creativity is choice-making.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Create and stir other people to create.

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.