If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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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 find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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 generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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