We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
ALL GOOD THINGS ARE WILD AND FREE MEANING LICENSE
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.īe true to your work, your word, and your friend. 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. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. There is no other land there is no other life but this. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. God will see that you do not want society. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. 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 doors as early in the spring. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. “However mean your life is, meet and live it do not shun it and call it hard names.
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