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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Retirement, Over You

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

Emily Dickinson
Steps, One Step At A Time

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Carpe Diem, Power
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2106, Delphi Classics

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Wisdom, Communication

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Emily Dickinson
Book, Ships

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

Emily Dickinson
Lanterns
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.139, Courier Corporation

You can stay young as long as you learn.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Romantic, Summer
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.201, Harvard University Press

I dwell in possibility.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction
"I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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

Emily Dickinson
Life, Time, Memories
Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Writing, Shining

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

Emily Dickinson
Grateful, Self, One Thing
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.15, Harvard University Press

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Motivational, Failure
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

Emily Dickinson
Bogs
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" l. 1 (ca. 1861)

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Emily Dickinson
Past, Packages, Lays
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

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

Emily Dickinson
Life, Happiness, Positivity
"Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

I imagine therefore I belong and am free.

Emily Dickinson
Imagination, Imagine, Visualization

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

Emily Dickinson
Death, Dying

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Emily Dickinson
Good Times, Pleasure, Mutual
Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.237, Courier Corporation

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

Emily Dickinson
Insane, World, Sanity

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

Emily Dickinson
Regret, Flower, Lovely
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.907, Harvard University Press

You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
House

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

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Sweet
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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