To inherit property is not to be born – is to be stillborn, rather.
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
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 which he hears, however measured or far away.
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live […]
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
