Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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