Echoes

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

I can only think while walking; as soon as I stop, I no longer think, and my mind only moves with my feet.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.

Walking is man's best medicine.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Therefore, this terror of the mind and the darkness must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun or the bright light of day, but by the appearance and reasoning of nature.

In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break right through to the other side.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

For philosophy accomplishes this: it heals the mind, removes empty anxieties, frees from desires, and drives away fears.

What profit is there in crossing the sea and in going from one city to another? If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. Perhaps you have reached Athens, or perhaps Rhodes; choose any state you fancy, how does it matter what its character may be? You will be bringing to it your own.

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.

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

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard.

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.