"Allow each soul to walk its path." (Gibran, The Prophet)
"Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost." (Emerson, "Self-Reliance")
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." ("Self-Reliance")
"(...) but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ("Self-Reliance")
"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
("Self-Reliance")
"Insist on yourself; never imitate." ("Self-Reliance")
"Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed, does not." ("Self-Reliance")
"Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put." ("Nature")
"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." (Thoreau, Walden)
"We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us." (Walden)
"Our life is frittered away by detail." (Walden)
"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning when nobody calls." ("Solitude")
"No man ever followed his genius till it misled him." ("Higher Laws")
"The eye of desire dirties and distorts."
(Hesse, My Belief - "Concerning the Soul")
"If [the soul] were untrammeled we would converse together like Goethe's characters and feel every breath as a song." ("Concerning the Soul")
"Soul is love, soul is the future." ("Concerning the Soul")
"I am writing from the grave. On these terms only can a man be approximately frank. He cannot be straitly and unqualifiedly frank either in the grave or out of it." (Mark Twain, 'Autobiography')
"I don't know what bothered me more, seeing that many live maggots or seeing a dead body move" (The Bone woman, 11)
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