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Nonconformity

failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends….Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts” (Thoreau)

Transcendentalism Project

By Sarah Hernandez

Self-Reliance

reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” (Thoreau)

Importance Of Nature

“Standing on the bare ground….I became a transparent eyeball;….The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable” (Emerson)

Free Thought

Thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, esp.

“…I had but ten cents in the world, and it surpassed my arithmetic to tell, if I was that man who had ten cents, or who had a farm, or ten dollars….I sold him the farm for just what I gave for it,….But I retained the landscape…” (Thoreau)

Confidence

belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

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