Thomas J.

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods