Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

—Henry David Thoreau

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About Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

—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.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

—Henry David Thoreau

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.

—Henry David Thoreau

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The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

Don't you find it odd that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

—Ethan Hawke in The Hottest State

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

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Dreams are necessary to life.

Reach for the stars.

—Christa McAuliffe

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