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 THOREAUIf you want to be happy, be!
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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I love to be alone.
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