Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give...

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give...

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the...

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the...

What is once well done is done forever.

What is once well done is done forever.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than...

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than...

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one...

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one...

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I...

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I...