1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Action / Effort
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Actualization / Fulfillment
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Age / Ageing
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Anger
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Attitude
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
Autonomy / Control
Self-command is the main elegance.
Balance
A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life … The world looks like a multiplication table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Beginning / Endeavour
What we call results are beginnings.
The Conduct of Life , 1860
Being / Essence / Soul
For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceedeth obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceedeth.
Self-Reliance
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004