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“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.” -Dead Poets Society

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There are almost 7.5 billion people alive in the world today.
Millions of them are mothers, others fathers or daughters or sisters or brothers or sons,
Most of these millions roam the world in a daze, never truly awake but never asleep.
The ones that wake hold the world in their palm.
Burning through life with a purpose, a passion, and a desire to explore.

There are almost 7.5 billion people alive in the world today.
Aspire to be more, to be more than just a number;
Aspire to be an astronaut or a pilot, aspire to be a singer or a teacher!
Don't settle for mediocre, demand excellence and achieve excellence!
Burn through life with passion and love and hope, and the rest will follow.

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I want to...

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by Walt Whitman

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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thoreau: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

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Thoreau: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

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"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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." -Henry David Thoreau

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Walking through Millennium Park in Chicago under the cover of the trees.

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Laying on a hammock in my backyard listening to the sounds of nature and gazing at the trees and beautiful clear and sunny sky.

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Strolling through the streets of Chicago taking in the fresh city air and appreciating life.

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Admiring the sun setting below the beautiful city on Mount Helix in silence and embracing nature.

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Embracing life and watching the sunset in silence at Sunset Cliffs.

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Live life to the fullest and embrace every moment.

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¨Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.¨
-  E. O. Wilson

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A modern day example of transcendentalist thought.

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