As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.