The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden (1854)
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

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

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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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