Henry David Thoreau
"To be awake is to be alive."
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
"Things do not change; we change."
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the
song still in them."
"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than
make-believe."
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we
busy about?"
"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for
love of it."
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to
what lives within us."
"What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become
by achieving your goals."
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to
elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me
what I thought, and attended to my answer."
" . . . if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such
desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
Albert Einstein
"I admit thoughts influence the body."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them."
Others
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself
as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the
scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod
of ailment"
George Bernard Shaw
"Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in
others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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