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36cdd5f 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. Henry David Thoreau
f13eef2 Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. values Henry David Thoreau
47af446 The question is not what you look at, but what you see. inspirational Henry David Thoreau
7861c47 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do.. unrealized-potential self-actualization Henry David Thoreau
13db51f I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. solitude company privacy Henry David Thoreau
a68ae1b 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. futility dreams castles-in-the-air work-lost foundations security goals Henry David Thoreau
0ae2533 Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau
a32aa27 Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
e688c94 Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau
b5331ee We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. nature unexplorable unfathomable wildness explore exploration wild land mystery sea mysterious wilderness Henry David Thoreau
d02eb36 Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. Henry David Thoreau
ca6992a However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse inspiration motivational life inspirational adversity hard-times Henry David Thoreau
53c4926 However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. . I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. inspiration motivational life inspirational hard-times Henry David Thoreau
8637417 I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. individuality strength liberty uniqueness human-nature Henry David Thoreau
de29e12 As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. time humor wisdom Henry David Thoreau
2d284e7 Things do not change; we change. philosophy inspirational common-sense henry david thoreau
1ffb7d3 The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. time life price value Henry David Thoreau
f9619c0 Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. heaven nature heavenly Henry David Thoreau
b22f774 If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. compensation hope inspirational failure disappointment Henry David Thoreau
14f8c3f Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it. humor conformity law rule foolishness fool rules Henry David Thoreau
463df71 We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to.. Henry David Thoreau
82f755d A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. wealth let-alone rich natural Henry David Thoreau
f9d4269 In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there.. spiritual philosophy brahma ganges indra vishnu hinduism sacred reverence priest gods intellect respect Henry David Thoreau
5ba1de3 The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. meaning friendship inspirational Henry David Thoreau
b5d0136 Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. generation fashion Henry David Thoreau
a95b1e7 All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. motivation inspirational make-a-difference desire Henry David Thoreau
4d39439 What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? environmental-protection possessions environment materialism Henry David Thoreau
d8a1c1f I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had be.. america humor truth fourth-commandment profane the-lord country sabbath profanity new-hampshire minister church secular superstition Henry David Thoreau
c64bb86 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. nature living life Henry David Thoreau
78e43f2 This world is but canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau
4362840 When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. artistic music inspirational power-of-music HENRY DAVID THOREAU
86ad7b6 Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. Henry David Thoreau
59f5f92 The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state. ...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard. free magazine men-of-straw straw-men rotten preachers liberal self-deception prison state school Henry David Thoreau
f8d6d2a It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. life inspirational self-acceptance Henry David Thoreau
163d2a7 How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. words literature reading Henry David Thoreau
111476c for my greatest skill has been to want but little. Henry David Thoreau
532312f The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau
e7000c1 I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreau
1e73341 Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. writing inspirational creativity Henry David Thoreau
a4ba121 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. inspirational effectiveness activism Henry David Thoreau
625ab2b However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts befor.. Henry David Thoreau
2e1c3d7 If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhap.. Henry David Thoreau
020ca52 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 put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the lice.. future life Henry David Thoreau
a73a0df It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? inspirational industriousness purpose Henry David Thoreau
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