“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius · Linen

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius · Ink

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius · Dusk Lilac

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

Seneca · Rust

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

Seneca · Terracotta

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca · Soft Amber

“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus · Slate

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”

Epictetus · Moss

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

Henry David Thoreau · Pale Gold

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

Henry David Thoreau · Mist

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

Henry David Thoreau · Deep Navy

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.”

Henry David Thoreau · Deep Teal

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Bone

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Fog

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Soft Peach

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Clay

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”

Emily Dickinson · Parchment

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant — success in circuit lies.”

Emily Dickinson · Faded Teal

“Forever is composed of nows.”

Emily Dickinson · Milk

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”

Rainer Maria Rilke · Blush

“The only journey is the one within.”

Rainer Maria Rilke · Slate

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

Rainer Maria Rilke · Deep Teal

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Lao Tzu · Moss

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

Lao Tzu · Fog

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Lao Tzu · Oat

“An old silent pond. A frog jumps into the pond — splash! Silence again.”

Matsuo Bashō · Faded Teal

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”

Matsuo Bashō · Bone

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Mary Oliver · Pale Gold

“Instructions for living a life: pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.”

Mary Oliver · Soft Peach

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

Mary Oliver · Blush

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Annie Dillard · Linen

“Things that make one's heart beat faster: sparrows feeding their young; passing a place where babies are playing; sleeping in a room where some fine incense has been burnt.”

Sei Shōnagon · Ivory

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Marcus Aurelius · Soft Amber

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde · Scarlet

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde · Deep Navy

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

Oscar Wilde · Crimson

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

Mark Twain · Soft Amber

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

Mark Twain · Terracotta

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

Mark Twain · Oat

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost · Moss

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost · Fog

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume.”

Walt Whitman · Soft Peach

“Resist much, obey little.”

Walt Whitman · Oxblood

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

John Keats · Pale Gold

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.”

John Keats · Dusty Mauve

“I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

W.B. Yeats · Dusk Lilac

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

W.B. Yeats · Rust

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

William Wordsworth · Blush

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

Emily Dickinson · Ivory

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”

Rainer Maria Rilke · Slate

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

Henry David Thoreau · Milk

“Confine yourself to the present.”

Marcus Aurelius · Bone

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

Marcus Aurelius · Deep Navy

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

Marcus Aurelius · Slate

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca · Mist

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca · Oxblood

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

Epictetus · Oat

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”

Heraclitus · Deep Teal

“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”

Epicurus · Soft Amber

“Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time.”

Sappho · Dusk Lilac

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Lao Tzu · Clay

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

Lao Tzu · Fog

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Confucius · Moss

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

Confucius · Terracotta

“What you seek is seeking you.”

Rumi · Pale Gold

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Matsuo Bashō · Linen

“O snail, climb Mount Fuji, but slowly, slowly!”

Kobayashi Issa · Faded Teal

“The light of a candle is transferred to another candle: spring twilight.”

Yosa Buson · Blush

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

Cicero · Moss

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

Ovid · Mist

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

Horace · Scarlet

“They can because they think they can.”

Virgil · Rust

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch · Crimson

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Plato · Parchment

“Hope is a waking dream.”

Aristotle · Pale Gold

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled.”

The Dhammapada · Faded Teal

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

Dōgen · Fog

“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.”

Wumen Huikai · Milk

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”

Saadi · Oat

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

Omar Khayyám · Soft Peach

“In all things have no preferences.”

Miyamoto Musashi · Ink

“Patience attains all that it strives for.”

Teresa of Ávila · Bone

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

Meister Eckhart · Ivory

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

Michel de Montaigne · Slate

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”

Blaise Pascal · Dusty Mauve

“He who sings scares away his woes.”

Miguel de Cervantes · Soft Amber

“Let us cultivate our garden.”

Voltaire · Moss

“Living well is the best revenge.”

George Herbert · Crimson

“Well done is better than well said.”

Benjamin Franklin · Ink

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail Adams · Parchment

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Pale Gold

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Scarlet

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Deep Navy

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

Friedrich Nietzsche · Oxblood

“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

Baruch Spinoza · Mist

“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking.”

Antonio Machado · Clay

“To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.”

William Blake · Faded Teal

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”

John Keats · Blush

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

William Wordsworth · Linen

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley · Mist

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

Emily Dickinson · Soft Peach

“Forever is composed of nows.”

Emily Dickinson · Fog

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walt Whitman · Deep Navy

“Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”

Walt Whitman · Soft Amber

“The sun is but a morning star.”

Henry David Thoreau · Pale Gold

“Not till we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

Henry David Thoreau · Deep Teal

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Moss

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Terracotta

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot · Dusk Lilac

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë · Crimson

“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.”

Christina Rossetti · Oxblood

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Leo Tolstoy · Slate

“Beauty will save the world.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky · Blush

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

Vincent van Gogh · Rust

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

Vincent van Gogh · Oat

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

Mark Twain · Ivory

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

Frederick Douglass · Ink

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

John Muir · Deep Teal

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

John Muir · Moss

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

William James · Scarlet

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

Helen Keller · Pale Gold

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

Marie Curie · Mist

“Work is love made visible.”

Kahlil Gibran · Clay

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”

Kahlil Gibran · Dusty Mauve

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

Rabindranath Tagore · Soft Peach

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

Rabindranath Tagore · Faded Teal

“I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

W. B. Yeats · Dusk Lilac

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”

Rainer Maria Rilke · Fog

“The best way out is always through.”

Robert Frost · Ink

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay · Blush

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Virginia Woolf · Soft Amber

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust · Deep Navy

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci · Parchment

“I am still learning.”

Michelangelo · Bone

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

Booker T. Washington · Oxblood

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

Charles Darwin · Rust

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

Jane Austen · Linen

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

Charles Dickens · Ivory

“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.”

George Sand · Blush

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

Louisa May Alcott · Deep Teal

“The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

Robert Louis Stevenson · Soft Peach

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde · Deep Navy

“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

Hans Christian Andersen · Pale Gold

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare · Slate

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

William Shakespeare · Pale Gold

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

William Shakespeare · Moss

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, It will be happier.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · Blush

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”

Robert Browning · Deep Navy

“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Soft Amber

“The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Mist

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Oat

“For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!”

John Greenleaf Whittier · Dusty Mauve

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Linen

“I dwell in possibility.”

Emily Dickinson · Faded Teal

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

Emily Dickinson · Blush

“All good things are wild and free.”

Henry David Thoreau · Moss

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

Henry David Thoreau · Clay

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Ivory

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”

Marcus Aurelius · Bone

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Marcus Aurelius · Deep Teal

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

Seneca · Scarlet

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

Seneca · Ivory

“Only the educated are free.”

Epictetus · Ink

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

Epictetus · Oat

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

Lao Tzu · Parchment

“The perfect man uses his mind like a mirror: grasping nothing, refusing nothing; receiving, but not keeping.”

Zhuangzi · Fog

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

Victor Hugo · Crimson

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

Gustave Flaubert · Ink

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

Charles Baudelaire · Dusk Lilac

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel · Soft Peach

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Linen

“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”

Friedrich Schiller · Dusk Lilac

“Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.”

Novalis · Blush

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”

Willa Cather · Ivory

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.”

Katherine Mansfield · Rust

“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”

Henrik Ibsen · Slate

“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”

Li Bai · Deep Teal

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

Florence Nightingale · Oxblood

“Failure is impossible.”

Susan B. Anthony · Scarlet

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”

Proverb · Moss

“Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”

Japanese proverb · Terracotta

“Little by little, one travels far.”

Spanish proverb · Clay

“I am human, and nothing human is alien to me.”

Terence · Bone

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

Julian of Norwich · Milk

“Wherever you are is the entry point.”

Kabir · Parchment

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

Zen saying · Faded Teal

“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

Walt Whitman · Moss

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

John Muir · Soft Amber

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller · Dusty Mauve

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

Edith Wharton · Pale Gold

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”

Rainer Maria Rilke · Deep Navy

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”

Sophocles · Crimson

“Become such as you are, having learned what that is.”

Pindar · Fog

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

Epicurus · Oat

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”

Francis de Sales · Mist

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

Thomas à Kempis · Slate