You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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 have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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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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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 went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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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.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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