Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

John Keats

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

The air is all softness.

The air is all softness.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.