"Our thoughts are epochs in our lives;..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!”

“Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.”

“Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?”

“We can invent only with memory.”

“It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.”

“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

“Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”