Live Life...

A man or woman is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. Things do not change, we change. Keep your thoughts. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. So it is with us as human being to be a part of something. How deep the ruts of tradition and conformity. Rather than love, than, fame than money, give me truth; for truth, will bring you true happiness.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Real happiness is when a person resigns himself to himself. However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Men are born to succeed, not fail. What more failure that to fail in achieving the ultimate gift of happiness. One cannot buy happiness. The cost of happiness is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Or rather plainer, be not simply good, be good for something.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I can not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Do not short live your life. Man is that he might have joy, but joy comes not because man simply is. Real happiness is peace with ones self and the self assurance that he has lived all that was life, not world. I do not wish to live which is not life; I want to leave deep and suck all the marrow of life.