"We are constantly invited to be who..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.”

“Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.”

“Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.”

“Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.”

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

“There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.”

“The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.”