"It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see."
"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."
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Source: Walden.
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