Quotes by Emily Dickinson

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain   Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain."

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

"Wisdom principle 102 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 83."

"Wisdom principle 97 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 80."

"Wisdom principle 82 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 71."

"Wisdom principle 67 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 62."

"Wisdom principle 52 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 53."

"Wisdom principle 12 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 29."

"Wisdom principle 7 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 26."

"Wisdom principle 2 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 23."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a timeless truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I dwell in possibility."

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

"Wisdom principle 92 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 77."

"Wisdom principle 87 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 74."

"Wisdom principle 77 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 68."

"Wisdom principle 72 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 65."

"Wisdom principle 62 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 59."

"Wisdom principle 37 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 44."

"Wisdom principle 17 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 32."

"There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry."

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"Where thou art, that is home."

"A courageous heart knows that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Wisdom principle 57 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 56."

"Wisdom principle 47 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 50."

"Wisdom principle 42 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 47."

"Wisdom principle 32 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 41."

"Wisdom principle 27 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"Wisdom principle 22 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 35."

"My friends are my estate."

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."

"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

"A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day."

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

"For love is immortality."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

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

"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."

"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

"Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"The brain is wider than the sky."

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

"It is a radiant truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

"They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

"Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed."

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"To love truly means recognizing that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

"It is a unyielding truth that an idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that a steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest."