Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Races are not won by the fastest athletes. Fights are not won by the strongest men. But the races are won and the fights are won by those who want to win most of all.
No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
Now is the accepted time.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
