I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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