In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds
and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,
that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and
not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great
calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,
that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and
not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great
calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Related:
- Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. -- Henry David Thoreau
- I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in
the direction of his dream
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.... - The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy... - Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to
count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten
toes, and lump the rest.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand... - If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau... - Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate
enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.... - If Christ should appear on earth he would on all hands be denounced as a
mistaken, misguided man, insane and crazed.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)... - I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.... - Since I've seen this *several* times in this group, the actual context of the
God is dead quotation of Nietzsche
The Madman. -- Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighte d a lantern and ran to the market-place callin out unceasingly...
