“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and ...”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?' The student of na...”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”