Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
Henry David ThoreauReally to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.
Henry David ThoreauThe oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
Henry David ThoreauI have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business.
Henry David Thoreau