Just Be
“If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” –Hillel …
Quotes
Thoreau Quote
“Pause! Avast! Why so seeming fast, but deadly slow?” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For“)In his Journal, almost …
Fact vs. Fashion
“The lasts over which the footwear of civilization is shaped are rarely modeled in the spirit of truth that would make them conform to the …
Know What You Know, And What You Don’t
“With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.” -– Galileo …
Live Like a Hero
“Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Maintain the Benevolence of Your Mind and Soul
“Most men have forgotten that it was ever morning; but a few serene memories, healthy and wakeful natures, there are who assure us that the …
Seize the Day — In Context of Life
“When on my way this afternoon, Shall I go down this long hill in the rain to fish in the pond? I ask myself. And …
Make It Matter
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements’; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil …
Wise Independence
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not …