For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart.
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Sad spectacle that man should live and be fed that he may fill a paragraph in the newspaper for his wonderful age, as we record the weight and girth of the Big Ox and Mammoth Girl. We don’t count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
Thought is the seed of action.
I like people who can do things. When Edward and I struggled in vain to drag our big calf into the barn, the Irish girl put her finger into the calf’s mouth, and led her in directly.
