Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.