To be in the Driver Seat of One's Life

Henry David Thoreau, known as the Sage of the Walden Pond, has made many insightful remarks about life.  A philosopher in his own right, he led a life of solitude and wrote on many issues.  The following lines are taken from one of his essays.  Careful reflection on those can help us in our endeavor to lead a vibrant life.

 "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.  He will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.  In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,...if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be,....now put the foundation under them !  Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn."