If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, And endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, They will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
I think I mentioned that I had been reading Walden, and found it was just packed full of quotes that I’ve collected over the years. There were parts I had to read out loud to figure out the direction of the sentences, and I’ll admit to liking his accounts of the experience perhaps a little more than the political parts… but I think I would have enjoyed meeting him in the woods. We could have looked at long skinny things together.
I’ve long thought that the most important thing for all of us to do is just to look around and actually see what’s there.
