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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.

While I silently ponder on that Change wrought in me, I find no Language equal to it, nor any Means to convey to another a clear Idea of it.

Your friend is your needs answered.

The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature; the one a compounding of elements, the other a resolution into the same.

Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.

The present moment is the same for all men, and their loss, therefore, is equal, for it is clear that what they lose in death is but a fleeting instant of time.

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

Life is a verb. We try our best. We don’t always do our best.

We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.

There is no silence more docile than the silence of love, and it is indeed the only one that we may claim for ourselves alone.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.

Otherwise, my dear wife, we shall seem discontented at the birth of our little daughter, if we consider our position before her birth as more perfect.

Whereas among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend

Let us cleanse therefore the fountain of contentedness, which is within us, that so external things may turn out for our good, through our putting the best face on them.

the foolish overlook and neglect present blessings, through their thoughts being ever intent on the future; but the wise make the past clearly present to them through memory

the sensible make their life pleasanter and more endurable by mitigating their sorrows with the consideration of their blessings, while most people, like sieves, let the worst things stick to them while the best pass through