I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavor.
In every joy that crowns our days, in every pain that tries our frame, our minds should know the things they love.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Rivers will sing you songs of peace. The forests will whisper to you secrets and the stars will give you strength.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
