Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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