"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. "
— Henry David Thoreau

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. "
— Arundhati Roy

"Be not simply good. Be good for something."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden and Other Writings)