If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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