Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulders...

Henry David Thoreau
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  1. Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you. - Amit Ray

  2. There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness. - Charbel Tadros

  3. Success is not a summit to climb, It is an equilibrium where work and life are balanced - Kandarp Gandhi

  4. Frequently in life, you have to take irrelevant paths in order to reach the correct destination. - Aditi Dufare

  5. Smile is a power someone cannot defeat. - Jonathan Page Acabo

More Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
  1. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...

  2. 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..

  3. The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  4. It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

  5. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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