Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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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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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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