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 THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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All good things are wild and free.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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I love to be alone.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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