... I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise 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 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 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.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things....
- Henry David Thoreau
I was reading an article Simplify! Simplify! by Henry David Thoreau in a magazine of May 1999, Modern Practical Psychology and was obliged to share this excerpt. I am grateful to have found it in my dad's big drawer and for his acceptance to let me borrow it. I know this is a digression from what I usually share but there is no harm in sharing wise words which touch our hearts and are obscure to our practical or realistic minds.
Mysore from 14th February, 2016 to 16th February, 2016 : In Photos
The first night in Mysore was a bike ride to this beautifully lit Mysore Palace
The place I couchsurfed in Mysore
Sunsets are always worthwhile
Mysore Palace in the daylight
Bangalore from 16th February, 2016 to 24th February, 2016 : In Photos
Cubbon Park
The place I couchsurfed in Bangalore
Other couchsurfers with me in Bangalore
State Library
Another park to hang out together
During the walk in the rural side
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