Good Thoughts


For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?--Matthew 16:26

What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what people think . . . It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he, who in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.--Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. –Henry David Thoreau

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.--Last words of Crowfoot, a Blackfoot Warrior

If you would be loved, love and be loveable.--Ben Franklin

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.--Ben Franklin

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. --Walt Whitman

A faithful friend is an elixir of life.--Ecclesiastics 6:16

Love is anterior to life—
Posterior to death—
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of earth.
--Emily Dickinson

There remain then, faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. --I Corinthians 13

Make love thy great quest; then desire spiritual gifts.--I Corinthians 14

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. –Anonymous

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not themselves. --Abraham Lincoln

The day will come when no badge or uniform or star will be worn. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to love god without mediator or veil. –Ralph Waldo Emerson