Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
reading writing easy
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
hands needs ifs
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
fall autumn sunshine
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
men light shadow
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
love heart dark
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
honesty integrity writing
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
law-of-attraction mind attraction
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
sky clouds earth
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
depression being-yourself men
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
inspirational life motivational
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
destiny men forever
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
forests literature happens
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
release found
...happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...
self-esteem greatness destiny
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.