Henry David Thoreau

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

“Be yourself, not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.”