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“Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.”

Imagination Journey Living

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861

“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”

Author:Henry David Thoreau

“Many of our days should be spent, not in vain expectations and lying on our oars, but in carrying out deliberately and faithfully the hundred little purposes which every man’s genius must have suggested to him. Let not your life be wholly without an object, though it be only to ascertain the flavor of a cranberry, for it will not be only the quality of an insignificant berry that you will have tasted, but the flavor of your life to that extent, and it will be such a sauce as no wealth can buy.”

Life Purpose Living Meaning Flavour

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861

“How meanly and miserably we live for the most part! We escape fate continually by the skin of our teeth, as the saying is. We are practically desperate. What kind of gift is life unless we have spirits to enjoy it and taste its true flavor?”

Life Living Experience

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861

“It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.”

Life Success Challenges Advice Hard Work Ambition Living Advantage

Author:Henry David Thoreau

“I don’t want to feel as if my life were a sojourn any longer. That philosophy cannot be true which so paints it. It is time now that I begin to live.”

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861

“Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”

Life Living Fulfillment

Book:Familiar letters

Source: Familiar letters

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