Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Take 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.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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