1.“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
2.“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
3.“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”
4.“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
5.“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
6.“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature….”
7.“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
8.“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
9.“Leap and the net will appear”
10.“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”
11.“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”
12.“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”
13.“You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.”
14.“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”
15.“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
16.“The secret of happiness is something to do”
17.“The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.”
18.“The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.”
19.“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative”
20.“You can fail many times, but you’re not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.”
21.“Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.”
22.“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.”
23.“I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men.”
24.“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
25.“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”