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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I love to be alone.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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