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Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May AlcottLittle Women (1868)

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May AlcottAttributed

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Henry David ThoreauWalden

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David ThoreauWalden

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David ThoreauWalden

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo EmersonAttributed

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety and Solitude (1870)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance (attributed)

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

Emily DickinsonTell all the truth but tell it slant (c. 1868)

Forever is composed of Nows.

Emily DickinsonForever is composed of Nows (c. 1863)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all.

Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers (c. 1861)

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Christina RossettiTime Flies: A Reading Diary (1885)

For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather.

Christina RossettiGoblin Market (1859)

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina RossettiRemember (1849)

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

William BlakeThe Tyger, from Songs of Experience (1794)

Energy is Eternal Delight.

William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.

William BlakeAuguries of Innocence (c. 1803)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter.

John KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John KeatsLetter to George and Georgiana Keats (1819)

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