What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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