I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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