The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotations
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.