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 THOREAUDo 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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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All good things are wild and free.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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