A Life of One's Own
Thoreau, Emerson, Montaigne and Schopenhauer: how to leave quiet desperation behind, and what it means to possess yourself without insulting the life you were given.
Day 1 of 7
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Day 2 of 7
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays — First Series
Day 3 of 7
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Essays; Studies in Pessimism
Day 4 of 7
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays — Complete
Day 5 of 7
“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays — Complete
Day 6 of 7
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Day 7 of 7
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods