evidence: Henry David Thoreau Quotes - "Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify." – Henry David Thoreau - "Be yourself, not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be." – Henry David Thoreau - "It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see." – Henry David Thoreau - "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." – Henry David Thoreau - "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." – Henry David Thoreau, Walden - "I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest." – Henry David Thoreau - "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." – Henry David Thoreau - "When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." – Henry David Thoreau - "Simplify your life.