"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ― Henry David Thoreau Topic(s): Men Tags: fishing, lives, their More From Henry David Thoreau "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." More In Men "The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."― Francis Bacon "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."― Niccolo Machiavelli "To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that."― Carlos Castaneda