You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I love to be alone.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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If 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.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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