"In pursuit of trivialities, of fancy clothes, shining cars, and brilliant careers, we have to battle insurmountable difficulties, but people still shed their tears. Forgotten are the days when something of old like a warm embrace was as precious as gold." -Dodinsky “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.” - Henry David Thoreau