Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“All good things are wild and free.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve
imagined.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the
life you imagined.”
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
“This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your
eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look
toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought
will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk
again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the
kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
“You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself
into one.”
“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.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“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.”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to
what lives within us.”
“We are constantly invited to be who we are.”
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down,
and commence living on its hint.What I began by reading, I must finish by
acting.”
“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we
begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of
our relations.”
“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
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“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's
eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
“There is no remedy for love, but to love more.”
“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.”
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim
at something high.”
“My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.”
“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”
“The heart is forever inexperienced.”
“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.”
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“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.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it
on?”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let
alone.”
“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.”
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things
have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures
are but the shadow of the reality.”
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin
and destiny of cats?”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song
still in them.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love
of it.”
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather
something to be.”
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s
gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of
generations and nations.”
“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.”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is
confirmed desperation.”
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we
busy about?”
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity,
and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s
eyes for an instant?”
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
“The rule is to carry as little as possible.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away.”
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to
elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to
which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at
the root.”
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude
will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and
gnaw it still.”
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must
wait till that other is ready.”
“Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and
through her, God.”
“That government is best which governs least.”
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
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“The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to
discover it was never fish that you were after.”
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to
amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them
at once?”
“Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to
satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed
suicide.”
“Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.”
“Of what significance are the things you can forget.”
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from
serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
“I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the
impression they make on me.”
“Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.”
“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us
see who is the strongest.”
“Every child begins the world again.”
“The sun is but a morning star.”
“A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of
getting his bread.”
“When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.”
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the
infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
“It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet
cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.”
“Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.”
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“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is
a perpetual morning.”
“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.”
“Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.”
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence
have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to
fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
“The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at
the beginning.”
“A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water,
but should we not pity him.”
“That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared
for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
“In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.”
“To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.”
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