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Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Let my soul become enlarged; I am not enough; I am little and contemptible.

At first sight there is something surprising in this strange unrest of so many happy men, restless in the midst of abundance.

The soul has wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.

A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.

if your ordinary day's work is thus exhausting, then the balance of your life is wrong and must be adjusted

When we have been engaged in the preliminaries to living for about fifty-five years, we begin to think about slacking off.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

How to make the getting our living poetic! for if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.