Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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I love to be alone.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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