Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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