THOREAU quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. It's not what you LOOK at that matters, it's what you SEE. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. 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.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Things do not change; we change. RATHER THAN LOVE, THAN MONEY, THAN FAME, GIVE ME TRUTH. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. There is one