#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream

Dear Kelly,

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of [her] dreams, and endeavors to live the life which [she] has imagined, [she] will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If you will be quiet and ready enough, you shall find compensation in every disappointment. You must learn to reawaken and keep yourself awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep.

Sincerely,

Henry David Thoreau

A mashup of quotes by Henry David Thoreau in the form of a letter to me