No American wildness that I know of is so dangerous as a city home "with all the modern conveniences".

One should go to the woods for safety, if nothing else.

-John Muir

We must be willing

to get rid of the life we’ve planned,

so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To what, then, must we aspire?

This, and this alone:

the just thought, the unselfish act,
the tongue that utters no falsehood,
the temper that greets each passing event
as something pre-destined, expected, and
emanating from the One source and origin.

-Marcus Aurelius

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,
and all that is left is a compromise.

-Robert Fritz

Don't aim at success- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as a byproduce of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success; you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say!- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Viktor E. Frankl
from Man's Search for Meaning