“Henry David Thoreau”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“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
“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.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“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
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
-- Henry David Thoreau