A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Live the life you've dreamed.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.