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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I love to be alone.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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