Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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