There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that … - Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Water is so much more fine and sensitive an element than earth. A single boatman passing up or down the whole of a wide river, and disturbs its every reflection. The air is an element which our voices shake still further than our oars the water.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.