The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in … - Henry David Thoreau

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Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

Henry David Thoreau

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

Chief, Earnest, Inhabitants, Purpose, Responsibility, Want

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Back, Past, Simple, Simplify, Struggle, Worrying

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Beauty Within, Look, Looks, Possible, Question, See

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Adventure, Dead Poets Society, Live, Nature, Wished, Woods

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

Dream, Inspiration, Island, Lying, Neighbors, Opportunities

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

Inspirational, Look, Matters, Motivational, Positive, See

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To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

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