“I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There, a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself. I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.”
"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
Success
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."
- Henry David Thoreau
Respect
"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."
- Henry David Thoreau
Mindfulness
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
Ambition
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."
Contentment
"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."
Contentment