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"New" background graphic on my Profile_page borrows from Henry_David_Thoreau's sister's drawing of his Walden cabin.
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About henry_thoreau
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(Some of) my opinions categorized:
Welcome to my Walden!
Henry David Thoreau manifested one of my strongest inclinations:
a lifelong love of daylong leisure.
Epinions name: "henry_thoreau"
Real name: Michael/Mike
Location: metro Kansas City (eastern Kansas)
Age: 55.
Gender/orientation/complexion: Male/straight/white (and respectful of everybody's rights and feelings).
Marital status: Divorced; no dependents--'ceptin' dogs, now and again. (Pretty well set in my ways.)
Occupation: Early retirement. [I stopped "punching the time clock" many years ago, thereby fulfilling a long-cherished, Thoreauvian dream.]
Preoccupations: Reading (both printed and audio books); writing; relishing sundry electronic gizmos; listening to music--including "classical" (virtually all periods, genres, and composers) and pop oldies; web surfing; bicycling around town (instead of always driving); hiking forests; fishing lakes (occasionally); watching home-theater shows (AT&T U-verse and DVD's); videogaming (occasionally); owning a plethora of "home gym" machines; and enjoying dogs of all sizes.
"A wise man is he who does not grieve for the things that he has not, but rejoices for those that he has."
~Epictetus
Sayings of Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away."
"What people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can."
"Let everyone mind his own business,
and endeavor to be what he was made."
"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
"I know of no more encouraging fact than
the unquestioned ability of a man
to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
"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."
"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."
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."
"If the day and the night are such
that you greet them with with joy,
and life emits a fragrance like flowers
more elastic, more starry, more immortal--
that is your success."
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better
than wisdom and skill without."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"You can not perceive beauty but with a serene mind."
"The finest qualities of our nature,
like the bloom on fruits,
can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
Yet we do not treat ourselves
nor one another thus tenderly."
"My friend is one who takes me for what I am."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life
from the reading of a book."
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