Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.