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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking

“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We are constantly invited to be what we are.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Renew thyself completely each day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”
― Thoreau Henry David

“Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Read not the Times, read the Eternities.”
― Thoreau Henry David

“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll