If 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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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 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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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 keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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