There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway......

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.....

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted.  Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.  ....

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.....

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up...

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.....

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.....

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.....

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength....

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.....

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul......

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead...

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.  We must not demean life by standing in awe of death...

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun....

 The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor......

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.....

Debt is the worst poverty.....

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.....

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.....

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ....

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.....

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.....

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying......

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.....

 Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.....

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it......

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there......

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little....

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.....

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten.  Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ......

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. .....

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles.....

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ....

 



Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it....

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness....

Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true....

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.....

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy......

Too much emotion is like none at all.....

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to....

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you......

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.....

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ....

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion....

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary....

Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear.....