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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Be not simply good - be good for something.
         

Be not simply good - be good for something.


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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.



There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.



The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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.

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.



If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



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

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



be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.



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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.



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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

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I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.




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