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    Henry David Thoreau
    “To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #2
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #3
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #4
    Henry David Thoreau
    “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #5
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
    Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • #6
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #7
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #8
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

  • #9
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
    Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #11
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #12
    Henry David Thoreau
    “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #13
    Henry David Thoreau
    “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #15
    Twyla Tharp
    “You are never lonely when the mind is engaged.”
    Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

  • #16
    Twyla Tharp
    “I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”
    Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

  • #17
    Twyla Tharp
    “Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.”
    Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

  • #18
    Robert Greene
    “Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”
    Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

  • #19
    Yogi Bhajan
    “If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.”
    Yogi Bhajan

  • #20
    Roy Peter Clark
    “I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me: talking about how reading and writing work.”
    Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

  • #21
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #22
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #23
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

  • #24
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #25
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    “Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.”
    Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

  • #26
    Wendy Laura Belcher
    “To be a good writer of journal articles, you must read journal articles.”
    Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success

  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #28
    Mitch Albom
    “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

  • #29
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #30
    David   Epstein
    “The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization”
    David Epstein, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World



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