A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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