To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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