Quote from Henry David Thoreau:
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
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Henry David Thoreau
If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Not put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.
Henry David Thoreau
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.
Wayne Dyer
One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business...
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!
Abraham Maslow
The sacred is in the ordinary, in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
Henry David Thoreau
Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive.