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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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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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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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