Margaret Fuller Quotes

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Man does not live by bread alone.

I don't want to surpass anyone. I don't want to be better than anyone else.

I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

I try and live my life simply and purely.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

I'm not really into all this trying to be No. 1, trying to be King of New York. I'm not with that, I'm just trying to do the best I can and know at the end of the day I gave it my best.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.