There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. - Henry David Thoreau - Quotesmemo.com

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One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

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Henry David Thoreau

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

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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!

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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.

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

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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.

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

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