Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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