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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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