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• 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....
• If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch 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....
• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• 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....
• 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 a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
  Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away. Henry David Thoreau...