“They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

I dwell in possibility.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.

I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

The Happiest people do not necessarily have the best things. They simply appreciate the things they have.