Life is a festival only to the wise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.