For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity … - Henry David Thoreau

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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Henry David Thoreau

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.

Cases, Human Nature, Position, Same, Suppose, Two

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Back, Past, Simple, Simplify, Struggle, Worrying

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Beauty Within, Look, Looks, Possible, Question, See

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Inspirational, Look, Matters, Motivational, Positive, See

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