Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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