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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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