Reality is a sliding door.

Some suggestions for you :

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.

Beauty is its own excuse for being.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.

Love, and you shall be loved.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,—the sweet, without the other side,—the bitter.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Follow the quiet voice within you that is telling you where to go.