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"Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly."
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"I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men."
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"I will die, yes, that is true, but first I will live to my heart's content."
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"The most hidden secret to the Law of Attraction is frequency and to Medicine is oxygen."
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"Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dA mon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her."
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"I don't want to sacrifice myself for something. I don't want do DIE for something. I don't even want to walk in the rain up a hill in a skirt that's sticking to my thighs for something. I want to live for something instead- as men do. I want to have fun. The most fun ever. I want to start partying like it's 1999, nine years early. I want a rapturous quest, I want to sacrifice myself to glee, I want to make the world better in some way."
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"A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind."
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"Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees."
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"Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious, holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time."
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"Recovery through sleep isn't going to happen if the majority of the components of your being aren't getting enough stimulation or resistance to work against. Your brain may be tired after work, but if your body and emotions haven't been challenged through the day, they're going to keep irritating you even if you're asleep. They don't need rest; they need work for real recovery to take place."
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"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
Life
"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
Dream
"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
Body
"We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day."
Nature
"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"
Family
"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."
Life
"For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven."
Love
"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."
Friendship
"Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written."
Vitality
"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
Reading
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