Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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