Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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