If you want to be happy, be!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
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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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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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 was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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I love to be alone.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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