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 THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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