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 THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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