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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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