I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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