The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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 THOREAU -
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU